ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2023
A universal diagnosis syntax.
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backgroundDiagnoses are crucial assets of clinical work and provide the foundation for treatment and follow up. They should be informative and customized to the patient's problem. Common prefixes, morphemes, and suffixes may aid the implementation of expressions that generate diagnoses.
resultsApt choices of symbols plays a major role in science. In this study, the variables e, o, and p are assigned to names of an etiological agent, a disorder, and a pathogenetic mechanism, respectively. The suffix -itis designates infections, allergies, inflammation, and/or immune reactions. Diagnoses (d) are generated by the formula d:= e&o&p where '&' means concatenation and ':= ' means assignment. Thus, with e:= 'Staphylococcus aureus ', o:= 'endocard', and p:= 'itis', d:= e&o&p generates the diagnosis d = 'Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis'. Diagnoses formed this way comply with common clinical diagnoses. Certain extensions generate complete, systematic medical diagnoses that are applicable to all medical specialties. For example, common medical prefixes, morphemes, and suffixes give rise to o = 'hypothyroidism', o = 'tachycardia', and o = 'hypophagocytosis'. The formula scales well with the developments in clinical medicine, systems biology, molecular biology, and microbiology. The diagnosis generating formula d:= e&o&p requires meticulous analysis of the components of diagnoses plus the introduction of appropriate variables and terms. Terms partition on established clinical categories and adhere to established clinical nomenclature. The syntax generates universal medical diagnoses.
conclusionsThe present study concerns a universal diagnosis syntax (UDS) that generates diagnoses using the formula d:= e&o&p with several extensions described in the study. The formula is easy to learn and covers diagnoses in all medical specialties. The present work succeeded in creating diagnoses from the formula. The fundamental insight is that no matter how complicated a diagnosis is it can be generated by a systematic process, which adds terms one by one. UDS may have implications for medical education and classifications. The formula lays a foundation for structured clinical decision-making. Formulas are hallmarks of hard science. So, d:= e&o&p anticipates a scientific medical revolution.
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