Diagnosis results

is used to filter the lists of findings indicated by the user. This action works best when a large number of symptoms are indicated.

Differential Diagnosis

This is the differential diagnosis of infectious diseases compatible with clinical data that you've entered. A sample screen appears below. Diagnoses are arranged in descending order of statistical likelihood, with probability figures depicted on the adjacent bar graph. In some instances, "overlapping" diagnoses may appear, e.g., both "Enterovirus infection" and "Aseptic meningitis, viral" in a patient with lymphocytic meningitis...or "Pasteurellosis" and '"Septicemia-bacterial" (the latter including Pasteurella septicemia).

The Diagnosis Results window comprises of columns and buttons:

• Compare checkboxes: Check boxes next to the listed disease to make a comparison of diseases.
• Disease: Lists all of the diseases filtered by the GIDEON database to meet the selected criteria. Click on disease name to open disease information window. Click on heading to sort disease list alphabetically.
• indicates potential bioterror disease
• indicates note exists for country
• Probability: Displays the probability based on the relative occurrence of individual symptoms, as well as the frequency of positivity for each of the symptoms chosen. Click on heading to sort disease list by probability.

The buttons are:

• Opens Diagnosis Compare.
• Opens Diagnosis Why Not.
• Clears all checked boxes in the Compare column.
• Selects all diseases for comparison purposes.
• Prints the Diagnosis Results.
• Emails the Diagnosis Results.
• Closes the Diagnosis Results window.

Additional information

• Diagnosis tutorial
• Diagnosis results video tutorial
• Cases that use Diagnosis:
  • First case scenario
  • Apples and Oranges
  • Reptile Salmonella
  • A Baby from Haiti