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Clinical case definition

In epidemiology, a clinical case definition, a clinical definition, or simply a case definition lists the clinical criteria by which public health professionals determine whether a person's illness is included as a case in an outbreak investigation—that is, whether a person is considered directly affected by an outbreak. Absent an outbreak, case…

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Diagnostic criteria

Signs Symptoms Clinician Type I errors False positives

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Cough Pneumococcal infection Blood culture Gold standard Specific

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Clinical definitions

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Epidemiology Public health Outbreak Incidence Prevalence

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Cough
Pneumococcal infection
Blood culture
Gold standard Gold standard (test)
Specific Sensitivity and specificity

Diagnostic criteria

Signs Sign (medicine)
Symptoms Symptom
Clinician
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False positives
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Amsterdam criteria
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer
McDonald criteria
Multiple sclerosis
ACR criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus Systemic lupus erythematosus

Clinical definitions

Posthumous diagnosis

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related to Diagnostic criteria · 7

Clinical case definition → Clinical, Diagnostic, Should, The, Type, Type II, When

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case criteria definition outbreak clinical diagnostic definitions may public health used include cases diagnosis sensitivity determine person considered symptoms also

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Clinical case definition	related to Diagnostic criteria	The	0.60	section
Clinical case definition	related to Diagnostic criteria	Clinical	0.60	section
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Clinical case definition	related to Diagnostic criteria	When	0.60	section
Clinical case definition	related to Diagnostic criteria	Type	0.60	section

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