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CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2013
Chapter 2. Common Symptoms
Sections: Common Symptoms: Introduction, Cough, Dyspnea, Hemoptysis, Chest Pain, Palpitations, Acute Knee Pain, Lower Extremity Edema, Fever & Hyperthermia, Involuntary Weight Loss, Fatigue & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Acute Headache, Dysuria.
Topics Discussed: signs and symptoms.
Excerpt:"
New or unexplained symptoms account for about half of all office visits; the remainder of visits are for ongoing care of established medical conditions. Evidence-based symptom evaluation
combines knowledge of a symptom's clinical epidemiology with
disease candidates according to Bayesian principles, such that the likelihood of a specific disease is a function
of patient demographics, comorbidities, and clinical features. This
knowledge can help support decisions about further testing or treatment
or whether to perform additional testing before treatment, or to treat
without further testing...."
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