DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/19820194201500006 Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil. Conflicts of interest: no conflicts of interest to declare. Abstract Objective: To identify the frequency of nursing diagnosis in patients in surgical clinic. Methods: A transverse, descriptive and exploratory study of quantitative approach, with data referring to 28 patients. The data collect...

In order to discriminate among the diagnostic candidates which are hypothesized by a diagnosis system at a certain stage may require the application of tests, i.e. causal inputs to the device to be diagnosed that promise to reveal distinctions between the candidates through observable features. We develop a theory and an algorithm for generating and applying tests in diagnosis based on a behavi...

We have developed a program for extracting the diagnoses and procedures from the past medical history and discharge diagnoses in the discharge summary of a case and coding these using SNOMED-CT in the UMLS. The program uses a limited amount of natural language processing. Rather, it makes use of the relatively standard structure of the discharge summary, a small dictionary to divide the text in...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine the associations between psychiatric diagnoses, trauma and suicidiality in psychiatric patients at intake. METHODS During two months, all consecutive patients (n = 139) in a psychiatric hospital in Western Norway were interviewed (response rate 72%). RESULTS Ninety-one percent had been exposed to at least one trauma; 69 percent had been repeatedly expo...

The set of diagnoses is commonly calculated in consistency based diagnosis, where a diagnosis includes a set of faulty components. In some applications, the search for diagnoses is reduced to the set of diagnoses with minimal cardinality. In distributed systems, local diagnoses are calculated in each agent, and global diagnoses are calculated for the complete system. The key contribution in the...