Presentation (medical)

In medicine, a presentation is the appearance in a patient of illness or disease—or signs or symptoms thereof—before a medical professional. In practice, one usually speaks of a patient as presenting with this or that. Examples include:

  • "...Many depressed patients present with medical rather than psychiatric complaints, and those who present with medical complaints are twice as likely to be misdiagnosed as those who present with psychiatric complaints."[1]
  • "...In contrast, poisonings from heavy metal can be subtle and present with a slowly progressive course."[2]
  • "...Some patients present with small unobstructed kidneys, when the diagnosis is easy to miss."[3]
  • "...A total of 7,870,266 patients presented to a public hospital ED from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018."[4]

See also

References
  1. Mark C. Fishman (2004). Medicine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 677. ISBN 978-0-7817-2543-9.
  2. Allan B. Wolfson; Gregory W. Hendey; Louis J. Ling (11 September 2012). Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-4511-5345-3.
  3. Parveen Kumar; Michael L. Clark (4 June 2012). Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 595. ISBN 978-0-7020-5304-7.
  4. Lim, Andy; Barua, Raja; Hong, Wei; Lim, Alvin (2020). "Using the national time presentation curve to guide staffing". Emergency Medicine Australasia. 32 (3): 532–533. doi:10.1111/1742-6723.13509. ISSN 1742-6723. PMID 32279442. S2CID 215750997.
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