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Duagnosis: Locating Clinical Uncertainty in the Diagnostic Framework.
| Τίτλος: | Duagnosis: Locating Clinical Uncertainty in the Diagnostic Framework. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Hanaoka K; General Medicine Co-Creation Center, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan.; Kampo Clinical Center, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan., Miyamori D; Department of General Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan., Ogawa-Ochiai K; Kampo Clinical Center, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan. |
| Πηγή: | Journal of evaluation in clinical practice [J Eval Clin Pract] 2026 Sep; Vol. 32 (6), pp. e70621. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9609066 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1365-2753 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 13561294 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Eval Clin Pract Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: Oxford, England : Wiley-Blackwell, c1995- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Clinical Reasoning* , Primary Health Care*, Humans ; Uncertainty ; Knowledge ; Philosophy, Medical ; Asia, Eastern |
| Περίληψη: | Rationale, Aims and Objectives: Clinical reasoning research has predominantly operated within a single epistemological system. The prevailing response to clinical uncertainty in primary care has been to cultivate tolerance, embrace ambiguity, or learn to navigate it: each treats uncertainty as inherent to the encounter. We propose a complementary move. Much of what is called clinical uncertainty may be attributed less to the patient's condition than to the reach of the diagnostic framework through which the clinician reasons. We introduce the concept of duagnosis (dual + gnosis, 'knowing'): the clinical cognition in which two independent diagnostic systems are simultaneously activated within a single clinician's reasoning. Methods: Conceptual analysis proceeding through concept definition, differentiation from neighbouring frameworks, development of the epistemological argument, and institutional comparison across East Asia. The analysis draws on clinical reasoning research, the philosophy of medicine, evidence on the care of persistent physical symptoms, and comparative scholarship on traditional medicine. Results: The core contribution is epistemological: what one framework cannot formulate may resolve into a recognisable, actionable pattern in another, so that uncertainty is partly a property of the framework and not only of the patient. Duagnosis can be stated in two versions: a broad sense continuous with family medicine's plural readings of the patient, and a strict sense in which the criteria of evidence themselves change. An East Asian institutional comparison shows that Japan's unified medical licence locates diagnostic duality within individual clinician cognition for every physician, a capacity medical education has not cultivated. Conclusion: Expanding the diagnostic repertoire, not merely tolerating uncertainty, can reduce the proportion of presentations for which no clinical formulation exists. Locating uncertainty partly in the reach of the framework, rather than in the patient, is a reframing that applies beyond any one health system, with implications for communication and referral. (© 2026 The Author(s). Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.) |
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| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: clinical decision‐making; clinical reasoning; epistemology; medical pluralism; medicine, Kampo; medicine, traditional; uncertainty |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260925 Date Completed: 20260925 Latest Revision: 20260928 |
| Update Code: | 20260928 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13613999 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jep.70621 |
| PMID: | 42788636 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
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