• Sutton's law – perform first the diagnostic test expected to be most useful
• Occam's razor – select from among competing hypotheses the one that makes the fewest new assumptions
• Leonard's law of physical findings – it's obvious or it's not there
• Hickam's dictum – "Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please"

(Wikipedia)

Keywords: diagnostic parsimony, medical diagnosis, aphorisms, heuristic, domain

Heuristic. Available from < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic >. access on 5 November 2019.

Hickam's dictum. Available from < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickam%27s_dictum >. access on 13 July 2016.

Occam's razor. Available from < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor >. access on 13 July 2016.

Problem domain. Available from < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_domain >. access on 5 November 2019.

Zebra (medicine). Available from < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_%28medicine%29 >. access on 5 November 2019.

-- GregorioIvanoff - 03 Nov 2019
to top