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diagnostic overshadowing: a standalone construct

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Clinical reasoning

the tendency to attribute a patient's new physical symptoms to an existing mental illness or disability, so the physical problem is missed or treated late.

In clinical reasoning, diagnostic overshadowing refers to the tendency to attribute a patient's new physical symptoms to an existing mental illness or disability, so the physical problem is missed or treated late. This meaning comes from Jones (2008) in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.[1]

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Jones, S., Howard, L., & Thornicroft, G. (2008). ‘Diagnostic overshadowing’: worse physical health care for people with mental illness. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 118(3), 169-171. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01211.x

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