title: Fundamentals of clinical methodology. 4. Diagnosis.
abstract: The concept of medical diagnosis is reconstructed and its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are analyzed. It is shown that medical diagnosis is relative to a complex diagnostic structure part of which are the method of diagnostic reasoning and the knowledge base used. Clinical knowledge-based systems research is interpreted as the advent of an engineering science of clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Theory of Medicine Department, University of Münster Medical Institutions, Waldeyer St. 27, 48149, Münster, Germany. zadeh@uni-muenster.de
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sadegh-Zadeh
mesh_terms: D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D009626:Terminology as Topic