Differential diagnosis project

Head of the Differential Diagnosis Project:

Associate Editors: , Areej Tariq, Umar Rashid

Goal

 * 1) Develop a complete list of the causes of a given medical sign or symptom
 * 2) Distinguish our site from Wikipedia
 * 3) Build a database (an excel spreadsheet) to develop an artificial intelligence program to identify the underlying disease in a patient with multiple symptoms

Process

 * 1) Select a common symptom or sign from the list which can be found by clicking here searchresults.
 * 2) Next you will want to upload the Excel file on your computer that contains information about the sign or symptom that you are working on. Click on the middle column to upload the Excel file that contains all the pages that list that refer to that sign or symptom.
 * 3) Remove meaningless or erroneous causes of the sign or symptom from the Excel file.
 * 4) Click on the history button. Go to the oldes pages by Heather Mangan and Caitlin Harrigan. Copy all of the old list of differential diagnosis into the list.
 * 5) Search The diseases database for other causes. Add these in alphabetical order.
 * 6) Sort the excel spreadsheet to put it in alphabetical order.
 * 7) Add these causes in alphabetical order to the Complete List of Differential Diagnosis of Causes of ... (in alphabetical order)
 * 8) Add the entire alphabetical list to the spreadsheet that you downloaded.
 * 9) Make a new column in the excel sheet and type in the formula: =(" "&B1&" ") where B1 is the entry that you want brackets around. If you want to add an asterisks in front of each entry, use the formula: =("* "&B1&" ")
 * 10) Save new version of the spreadsheet (click on the 3rd column in Searchresults). Save the file as the same name as what you checked it out as. Say that it is ok to overwrite the other file.
 * 11) Organize the alphabetical list into a list by organ system (see below). If it falls into 2 organ systems, put it in both.
 * 12) Add the name of the sign or symptom to this page

Structure
Please review again the overall structure of a page to see where the differential diagnosis fits in: Template to add a New Disease

The differential diagnosis section of the page should look like this:

Complete Differential Diagnosis of the Causes of ...
(In alphabetical order)


 * a...
 * z...

Make sure that each diagnosis is linked to a page.

Complete Differential Diagnosis of the Causes of ...
(By organ system)