Screening for Medical Conditions and Adverse Drug Reactions

Course Description

Course Description:

The course begins by defining the term differential diagnosis as identifying a cluster of signs and symptoms that requires therapists to determine whether the best intervention is within their scope of practice or if the situation warrants communication with the patient’s physician or other healthcare team member.

The process of determining a differential diagnosis is based upon many factors, including risk factor assessment, recognition of presenting signs and symptoms as typical/atypical, and a review of physiological systems. A discussion of symptom investigation is included and used as a basis for determining the presence of atypical signs and symptoms that require further assessment.