Overview: Examines the circumstances in which diagnosis names are unassignable.Explores how different stakeholders used diagnosis names for different purposes.Advocates for including diagnostic uncertainty in pDoctors, patients, investigators, administrators, and policymakers who assign diagnoses assume three elements: the name describes an entity with conceptual or evidentiary boundaries, the person setting the name has a high degree of certainty, and the name has a consensus definition. This book challenges this practice and offers an alternative to assigning diagnoses: quantitating diagnost
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