Diagnosis - The limiting focus of taxonomy

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 103-111

  Sturmberg, Joachim P ^a   Martin, Carmel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

attractors; complexity in health; diagnosis; disease; diseasome; illness; knowledge in medicine; non linear dynamics; partialism; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MORBIDITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; CLASSIFICATION; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

EID: 84893979388     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12113     Document Type: Article

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