Headache 2-01: Common Symtpoms

Question 1

What accounts for about half of all office visits

Answer 1

New or unexplained symptoms

Question 2

What does evidence based symptoms evaluation combine?

Answer 2

1. Knowledge of a symptoms clinical epidemiology with disease candidates
   *the likelihood of a specific disease, is a function of patient, demographics, comorbidities, and clinical features.

Question 3

What affects how patients experiment, interpret, and describe symptoms, and whether their symptoms are sufficiently bothersome or worrisome to seek medical attention.

Answer 3

1. Biological
2. psychological
3. Cultural factors

Question 4

What are the five realities that reflect the conundrum clinicians face when associating an acute respiratory syndrome with an etiologic pathogen (1-3)

Answer 4

1. The same clincial syndrome may be reduced by a variety of infectious pathogens
2. The same pathogen may be produce a variety of syndromes
3. The most likely cause of a syndrome may vary by patient age, year, geography, and setting

Question 5

What are the five realities that reflect the conundrum clinicians face when associating an acute respiratory syndrome with an etiologic pathogen (4-5)

Answer 5

4. Diagnosis of the pathogen is frequently impossible on the basis of clinical findings alone
5. The causes of a large proportion of infectious disease syndromes are still unknown