The Nature of Medical Descriptions

2/17/2004


Click here to start


Table of Contents

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

Author: Stuart J. Nelson, MD

Email: nelson@nlm.nih.gov

Home Page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/