In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...

The main feature of civilization is the production, consumption, and accumulation of information in all branches of human activity. All human life, in one way or another, relates to the receipt, ...

A car can be compared to the human body and may need diagnostic tests very often. For humans, when a patient consults a doctor about a symptom, the doctor runs a medical diagnostic test to ascertain ...

This is a guest post by Lance Dodes, M.D. The question of Donald Trump's emotional fitness to serve as President has made psychiatric diagnoses a hot topic in the news these days. This interest has ...

It is difficult to recall a time when doctors and patients had trouble tracking the presence of glucose and other substances in urine and blood. Lack of sufficient measurement tools made it difficult ...

Dimensional models of psychopathology may highlight symptom continua, but they do not answer the central question of whether ...