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Variable meanings according to context
Depending on context, concepts can be used in many different ways with various meanings.
A disorder concept can represent:
- Possible diagnosis or part of a differential diagnosis
- Diagnosis applied to a family member or some other contact person
- Diagnosis explicitly excluded
- Diagnosis, now known to be incorrect, but which was the basis for a particular course of treatment
- Absent feature of a related disorder
- Diagnosis that the patient believes or fears they have
A procedure concept can represent:
- Requested, recommended or planned procedure
- Procedure for which consent has been given or withheld
- Procedure that is contraindicated
- Procedure that has been canceled or postponed
- Procedure for which follow up is now being arranged
- Procedure which caused a complication
A symptom concept can represent:
- Confirmed absence of a symptom
- Symptom deduced and reported by a third party as a witness of a clinical event
- Inability or failure to obtain information about a symptom
- Symptom which the patient is advised to respond to in a particular manner
A finding concept can represent:
- Absence of a finding
- Inability or failure to check for a finding
- Finding which, if present, is to trigger a particular change in clinical management
- Finding which is the goal or target of a treatment
A product concept can represent:
- Allergy or other contraindication to a product
- Assertion that a product caused a particular side effect
- Various therapeutic activities of a product
- Instructions given to a patient for use of a non-prescription medication
- Clinical authorization of a prescription
- Issuing of a prescription for a course of treatment
- Supply (dispensing) of a specified quantity of a product
- Administration of a single dose of a product
- Change of a product dosage
- Discontinuation of a product
- Specialist's recommendation to use a particular product, if certain circumstances apply
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