The manual — known by its initials and edition number, DSM-V — often organizes symptoms under an evocative name.
While we wait for better science, we still need ways to organize symptoms to guide research and treatment that may relieve mental or emotional pain.
In 1980, it hit on the strategy of adopting a medical rhetoric, organizing those symptoms into neat disease categories and checklists of precisely described criteria and publishing them in the hefty — and, according to its chief author, "very scientific-looking" — D.S.M.-III.
The DSM-IV-PC uses a descriptive approach, i.e. identification of symptoms and development of diagnostic algorithms that are organized by symptoms, and emphasizes only those conditions regularly present in primary care [ 33].
In order to help selection of a model depending on expression of a specific feature of dystonia, this review is organized by symptoms and current knowledge of pathogenesis of dystonia.
Like IMCI, these syndromic protocols are organized around symptoms (e.g. fever, cough, diarrhea, etc).
The Toolkit is a printed, patient guide for managing symptoms commonly seen in cancer, organized by symptom in a question/answer format.
The difficulty is to find tools organizing the many symptoms and identify groups of patients suffering from a specific combination of symptoms.
Prednisolone was prescribed for suspected cryptogenic organizing pneumonitis, but her symptoms improved only partially.
Seeing patients in clinical care will spur the development of 'illness scripts', cognitive structures that clinicians use for storing and organizing information about patient symptoms and conditions in memory (Feltovich and Barrows 1984).
