A brief history of medical taxonomy and diagnosis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 132-135

  Balint, Geza P ^a   Buchanan, W Watson ^b   Dequeker, Jan ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHEUMATOLOGY AND PHYSIOTHERAPY   (Hungary)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GREECE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOLOGY; SYMPTOM; THEORY;

CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT;

EID: 33644863094     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-004-1051-z     Document Type: Article

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