The Modern Rehabilitation Medicine Enigma: Treating People with Disabilities, but Sometimes without a Clear Diagnosis.

CONCLUSIONS: A PubMed query revealed 1479 articles with the words "diagnostic enigma". The search term "diagnostic enigma in rehabilitation medicine" resulted only in four articles. In the long process of rehabilitation of disabled patients, some patients' diagnoses change during the hospitalization phase and some diagnoses become unclear. The rehabilitation process becomes complicated and sometimes incomplete. Implications for Rehabilitation Medicine:  1. In most instances, patients are referred to rehabilitation medicine facilities with definite diagnoses. 2. The long process of a comprehensive rehabilitation of the disabled person may be more complicated when, prior to the discharge, the final diagnosis becomes vague and uncertain. 3. Facts about the patient's past mental, physical or vocational background may cast a different light on the process. The patient's diagnosis sometimes becomes an enigma. PMID: 30152765 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Ortopedia, Traumatologia, Rehabilitacja - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Ortop Traumatol Rehabil Source Type: research