Risk Factors

Epidemiologic factors (e.g. age, race, gender, smoking), risk-conferring diagnoses (e.g. w/ defined temporal relationship), family history

Associated conditions

Diagnoses that correlate, but have no defined temporal relationship (may share a pathophysiologic mechanism)

Etiologies with a known or theoretical mechanism. Often diseases that cause another disease.

To avoid repetition, symptoms can be summarized as syndromes or other diagnoses (e.g. write CHF instead of dyspnea, fatigue, cough, orthopnea, PND)

Criteria. Type of diagnosis (e.g. clinical, laboratory, pathologic)

Automatically generated as well as textbook "classic" differential.

Links to the Risk Factors or Pathophysiology section of other disease pages.