Presentation

(medical)

In medicine, a presentation is the

appearance in a patient of illness or
disease—or signs or symptoms thereof—
before a medical professional. In practice,
one usually speaks of a patient as
presenting with this or that. Examples
include:
"...Many depressed patients present with
medical rather than psychiatric
complaints, and those who present with
medical complaints are twice as likely to
be misdiagnosed as those who present
with psychiatric complaints."[1]
"...In contrast, poisonings from heavy
metal can be subtle and present with a
slowly progressive course."[2]
"...Some patients present with small
unobstructed kidneys, when the
diagnosis is easy to miss."[3]
"...A total of 7,870,266 patients
presented to a public hospital ED from 1
July 2017 to 30 June 2018."[4]
See also
Presentation (obstetrics)

References
1. Mark C. Fishman (2004). Medicine (https://
books.google.com/books?id=1wOe6bVPZF
IC&pg=PA677) . Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins. p. 677. ISBN 978-0-7817-2543-9.
2. Allan B. Wolfson; Gregory W. Hendey; Louis
J. Ling (11 September 2012). Harwood-
Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency
Medicine (https://books.google.com/book
s?id=wwws22gAykYC&pg=PT152) .
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 152.
ISBN 978-1-4511-5345-3.
3. Parveen Kumar; Michael L. Clark (4 June
2012). Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine
E-Book (https://books.google.com/books?i
d=85Tgj1LBMjYC&pg=PA595) . Elsevier
Health Sciences. p. 595. ISBN 978-0-7020-
5304-7.
4. Lim, Andy; Barua, Raja; Hong, Wei; Lim,
Alvin (2020). "Using the national time
presentation curve to guide staffing".
Emergency Medicine Australasia. 32 (3):
532–533. doi:10.1111/1742-6723.13509
(https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1742-6723.13
509) . ISSN 1742-6723 (https://www.world
cat.org/issn/1742-6723) . PMID 32279442
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3227944
2) . S2CID 215750997 (https://api.semanti
cscholar.org/CorpusID:215750997) .
External links
Search the Merriam Webster Medical
Dictionary (http://www2.merriam-webst
er.com/cgi-bin/mwmednlm?book=Medic
al&va=presenting) for presenting and
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