Prognosis
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Prognosis (Greek πρόγνωση - literally fore-knowing, foreseeing) is a medical term for predicting the likely outcome of one's current standing.When applied to large statistical populations, prognostic estimates can be very accurate: for example the statement "45% of patients with severe septic shock will die within 28 days" can be made with some confidence, because previous research found that this proportion of patients died. However, it is much harder to translate this into a prognosis for an individual patient: additional information is needed to determine whether a patient belongs to the 45% who will succumb, or to the 55% who survive.
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See also
- Diagnosis
- Nocebo
- Optimism bias
- Placebo (origins of technical term)
- Prognostics
- Reference class forecasting
- Sign (medicine)
- Symptom
- Thought experiment
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