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;Clinical diagnosis
:A diagnosis made on the basis of [[medical sign]]s and reported [[symptom]]s, rather than [[diagnostic test]]s
;Laboratory diagnosis
:A diagnosis based significantly on laboratory reports or test results, rather than the [[physical examination]] of the patient. For instance, a proper diagnosis of infectious diseases usually requires both an examination of signs and symptoms, as well as laboratory test results and characteristics of the pathogen involved.
;Radiology diagnosis
:A diagnosis based primarily on the results from [[medical imaging]] studies. [[Greenstick fracture]]s are common radiological diagnoses.
;Electrography diagnosis:
A diagnosis based on measurement and recording of electrophysiologic activity.
;Tissue diagnosis
:A diagnosis based on the macroscopic, microscopic, and molecular examination of tissues such as biopsies or whole organs. For example, a definitive diagnosis of [[cancer]] is made via tissue examination by a [[pathologist]].
;Principal diagnosis
:The single medical diagnosis that is most relevant to the patient's [[chief complaint]] or need for treatment. Many patients have additional diagnoses.
;Admitting diagnosis
:The diagnosis given as the reason why the patient was admitted to the hospital; it may differ from the actual problem or from the ''discharge diagnoses'', which are the diagnoses recorded when the patient is discharged from the hospital.
;[[Differential diagnosis]]
:A process of identifying all of the possible diagnoses that could be connected to the signs, symptoms, and lab findings, and then ruling out diagnoses until a final determination can be made.
;[[Diagnostic criteria]]
:Designates the combination of [[sign (medicine)|signs]], [[symptom]]s, and test results that the [[clinician]] uses to attempt to determine the correct diagnosis. They are standards, normally published by international committees, and they are designed to offer the best [[sensitivity and specificity]] possible, respect the presence of a condition, with the state-of-the-art technology.
;[[Prenatal diagnosis]]
:Diagnosis work done before birth
;[[Diagnosis of exclusion]]
:A medical condition whose presence cannot be established with complete confidence from history, examination or testing. Diagnosis is therefore by elimination of all other reasonable possibilities.
;[[Dual diagnosis]]
:The diagnosis of two related, but separate, medical conditions or [[comorbidities]]. The term almost always referred to a diagnosis of a serious mental illness and a substance use disorder, however, the increasing prevalence of genetic testing has revealed many cases of patients with multiple concomitant genetic disorders.
;[[Self-diagnosis]]
:The diagnosis or identification of a medical conditions in oneself. Self-diagnosis is very common.
;[[Remote diagnosis]]
:A type of [[telemedicine]] that diagnoses a patient without being physically in the same room as the patient.
;[[Nursing diagnosis]]
:Rather than focusing on biological processes, a nursing diagnosis identifies people's responses to situations in their lives, such as a readiness to change or a willingness to accept assistance.
;[[Computer-aided diagnosis]]
:Providing [[symptoms]] allows the computer to identify the problem and [[diagnose]] the user to the best of its ability. Health screening begins by identifying the part of the body where the symptoms are located; the computer cross-references a database for the corresponding [[disease]] and presents a diagnosis.
;[[Overdiagnosis]]
:The diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms, distress, or death during a patient's lifetime
;[[Wastebasket diagnosis]]
:A vague, or even completely fake, medical or psychiatric label given to the patient or to the [[medical record]]s department for essentially non-medical reasons, such as to reassure the patient by providing an official-sounding label, to make the provider look effective, or to obtain approval for treatment. This term is also used as a derogatory label for disputed, poorly described, overused, or questionably classified diagnoses, such as [[pouchitis]] and [[senility]], or to dismiss diagnoses that amount to [[overmedicalization]], such as the labeling of normal responses to physical hunger as [[reactive hypoglycemia]].
;[[Retrospective diagnosis]]
:The labeling of an illness in a historical figure or specific historical event using modern knowledge, methods and disease classifications.

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