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Occam's razor in diagnosis: a standalone construct

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Clinical reasoning

the rule of seeking one unifying diagnosis for all of a patient's findings, weighed against the reality that patients often have several diseases at once.

In clinical reasoning, Occam's razor in diagnosis refers to the rule of seeking one unifying diagnosis for all of a patient's findings, weighed against the reality that patients often have several diseases at once. This meaning comes from Hilliard (2004) in New England Journal of Medicine.[1]

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Hilliard, A. A., Weinberger, S. E., Tierney, L. M., Midthun, D. E., & Saint, S. (2004). Occam's Razor versus Saint's Triad. New England Journal of Medicine, 350(6), 599-603. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmcps031794

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