The GIDEON Tutorial

INFECTIOUS DISEASES DIAGNOSIS 2 – COMPARE

You may have noted that we only entered a few symptoms and signs. What additional information would help GIDEON sharpen the diagnosis in this case. The Compare option allows you to access further discriminative findings which would distinguish among the listed diseases (2-or-more at a time; or all together). Simply mark the diseases in question using the mouse, and press the  button at the bottom left corner of Diagnosis results box.

In this case, I have chosen to compare the top 5 disease results:

Note from the resulting list that GIDEON considers an Ingestion history and Cough to be key discriminative findings in this case (ie, listed first in this screen). Also note that additional clues for each disease are listed at the bottom of the chart.

Do you remember the rats which entered our patient’s tent? Go back to the Diagnosis screen and scroll down to ‘Exposure’. and click +, then + for ‘Animal’ and Check for ‘Rodent’. It should look as follows:

Now you can see the new Diagnosis results displayed, as shown in the screen below:

In essence, you have ‘told’ GIDEON to limit diagnoses to those associated with rodents. Similarly, you might have changed the country name – i.e., what diseases should we consider if a patient returns from Romania with identical signs and symptoms?

Next: Diagnosis 3 – Info

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