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The APA Ethics Code of the American Psychological Association (a different organization than the American Psychiatric Association) does not have a similar rule explicitly defined in its code of ethics. Instead, the APA suggests that various statements made in different parts of its Ethics Code would apply to cases of the diagnosis of a public ...
"Differential diagnosis" is also used more loosely to refer simply to a list of the most common causes of a given symptom, to a list of disorders similar to a given disorder, or to such lists when they are annotated with advice on how to narrow the list down (French's Index of Differential Diagnosis is an example). Thus, a differential ...
There are common methods for inducing certain symptoms and mimicking specfic diseases. As mentioned earlier, it is important ot first rule out true disease. Physicians usually must have a high suspicion for FDIS to pursue it as a likely diagnosis based on abnormal patient behaviors and medical history.
307.80 Associated with psychological factors; 307.89 Associated with both psychological factors and a general medical condition; 300.7 Hypochondriasis; 300.7 Body dysmorphic disorder; 300.82 Somatoform disorder NOS (coded 300.81 in the DSM-IV)
An example of such a diagnosis is "fever of unknown origin": to explain the cause of elevated temperature the most common causes of unexplained fever (infection, neoplasm, or collagen vascular disease) must be ruled out. Other examples include: Fibromyalgia [9] Adult-onset Still's disease [10] Behçet's disease [11] Bell's palsy [12]
For example, a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, a common mental illness, had a poor reliability kappa statistic of 0.28, indicating that clinicians frequently disagreed on diagnosing this disorder in the same patients. The most reliable diagnosis was major neurocognitive disorder, with a kappa of 0.78. [103]
Saltz is skeptical of this diagnosis, however. "I haven't examined him myself, but I can say that autism is not associated with violent behavior, and it doesn't explain things like his urination ...
A negative result in a test with high sensitivity can be useful for "ruling out" disease, [4] since it rarely misdiagnoses those who do have the disease. A test with 100% sensitivity will recognize all patients with the disease by testing positive. In this case, a negative test result would definitively rule out the presence of the disease in a ...