The Nature of Medical Descriptions
The Book
What is Information?
What is Information? (II)
What is Information? (III)
What is Information? (Blois)
Structure of Information
The Nominal-Attribute Structure
Does This Work?
Properties of the N||A Structure
Open and Closed Descriptions
Necessity and Sufficiency
The Comptean Hierarchy
Some Observations
Important Observation
Hierarchical Arrangement of Attributes
What is a Disease?
A Hierarchical Model
A High-Level Disease Depression
A Low-Level Disease Chemical Diabetes
Attribute Lattice for Pheochromocytoma
What is a Disease? (II)
What is a Disease? (III)
Observations
Lattice Descriptions in Medicine
Classic Medical Diagnosis
Medical Diagnosis Revisited
Processes of Medical Diagnosis
Attribute - Intervention Model
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