Abstract Objectives To develop a methodological proposal to build clinical classifiers using information about signs and symptoms reported by the patient in initial the consultation and laboratory test results. Methods The proposed methodology considers procedures typical of the Bayesian...

When an individual is seen or treated by a healthcare professional, a series of alphanumeric codes are used to describe the medical diagnoses and services provided. This designated classification structure, the ninth iteration of ICD (International Classification of Diseases), implements the use...