Diagnosis-related group

According to their article, three to five percent of school aged children are affected by ADHD. When diagnosing children, there are a set of requirements that must be fulfilled. The behavior must be inappropriate in that child’s age group and the symptoms must have appeared before the age of seven for a continuous six months. There are also important factors that could rule out ADHD and be a reason for the child’s behavior. According to studies, focusing on the frontal lobes, the causes…

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model is a biopsychosocial framework used for health related conditions (WHO, 2001). This model provides an integrated perspective of health through a combination of biological, psychological and social factors (Alvarez 2012; Reed, Spaulding, & Bufka 2009; Sanderson et al. 2008; WHO 2001). The analysis and critique of the ICF classification model will be useful in determining whether it is an effective tool to improve…

ADHD is a highly over identified disability and is also overprescribed, since ADHD is highly over medicated health diagnoses should try to find alternative treatments. ADHD affects a lot of young kids and many adults but is mostly diagnosed for children in preschool and elementary. Affecting most kids, ADHD is also over identified in school children. When students are identified as having ADHD they are instantly labeled as having ADHD and get prescribed the drugs they need to help out with it.…

Introduction The art of diagnosis is complicated, and unintentional misdiagnosis can wreak havoc on the lives of the client, as well as the clinician. This leads one to ponder the circumstances and consequences of a deliberate misdiagnosis by a trained clinician who has taken an oath to operate with utmost integrity. In the article, Deliberate Misdiagnosis, the author spoke about situations where a clinician might feel pressured to deliberately under or over diagnosis a client. Several…

DSM IV Diagnosis Using the DSM IV diagnostic tool, Elizabeth’s substance use would be diagnosed as Alcohol dependence (AD). She has more than the minimum three required criteria to meet the DSM IV diagnosis of alcohol dependence. A study by Pabst, Kraus, Piontek & Baumeister (2012) shows that to be classified as alcohol-dependent, a person has to meet at least three of the seven DSM IV criteria of AD in the previous 12 months. She has tolerance, as she has markedly increased amounts of…

Retrospective diagnosis is examining the evidence/archives from ancient medicine or any other era and comparing that data to today’s era of medicine, or it can be to diagnose a patient from the past with today’s knowledge by using the documents and/or artifacts that may be relevant or pertain to the patient. Therefore, this paper is going to examine how retrospective diagnosis works, examples of retrospective diagnosis, it’s strengths and weaknesses, and why retrospective diagnosis is important…

the ability to flip to a diagnosis of any given patient encountered in practicum or internship and read the diagnostic criteria, associated supporting features, development and course, risk and prognostic factors, culture-related issues, suicide risk, functional consequences, differential diagnosis and comorbidity aids in the student’s exposure to the diagnosis from multiple viewpoints (APA, 2013). In addition, the depth…

brain activity of their patient, which has allowed them to be able to see the effects of the disease in the early stages. Monitoring the brain activity can be done a few ways, but in the end comes down to the doctors making graphs to assemble their diagnosis. They also like to do blood work along with this, just to make sure the symptoms the patients are having are not from another form of…

I Promise All around me, men and women of different rankings pass by the ER with varying levels of urgency. Bouncing a tennis ball, I stared through the glass door of my office, labeled “Doug P Mills, M.D., Head of Diagnostic Medicine. The passages of this hospital cried with emotional distress. Patients, doctors, nurses, and visitors all share one thing in common: empathy. The walls reek of tears and hope. For me, I’m amused at the doctors that lose sleep over their patients. Emotion is just a…

WIllem Einthoven is the creator of the electrocardiogram, it is used today everywhere in the health field, in ambulances, hospitals, etc. This is to show how it was first made, and who created it, and first developed it. Along with how it has helped people today in modern times. Understanding how willem einthoven had a compelling achievement in understanding the heart rhythms and how to analyze them. In this essay I will help you understand what is essential to vital human life today, and how it…