Illness Scripts | Study Guide

University:
California State University, Fullerton
Course:
KNES 205 | Medical Terminology
Academic year:

2022
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430

Pages:

4
Author:

gewoekerdodx

Illness Scripts Foundations of Clinical Medicine Objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Understand the components of illness scripts Create high quality disease illness scripts Create high quality patient illness scripts Represent patient concerns using medical terminology Understand the role of disease illness scripts and patient illness scripts in differential diagnosis 6. Use disease illness scripts to compare and contrast diseases Disease Illness Scripts • Representation of a condition in the mind of a practitioner • Vary between practitioners • Tend to have the following components: • Epidemiology • Time course • Clinical Presentation (signs and symptom; i.e. syndrome) • Mechanism/pathophysiology • Some resources may recommend additional components Epidemiology • Demographics • Age, sex • Race/ethnicity • Reason: Has been traditionally described this way in the medical literature; nevertheless, categorizations may be misleading • Socioeconomic status • Risk factors • Including pre-existing conditions • Exposures • Including travel, occupational, hobbies, sexual, drugs, medications, pets, close contacts