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“Unspecified” allows doctors to provide patients with the best care in emergency situations where there isn’t time to get all of the information necessary to make a formal diagnosis, but treatment is still needed.
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Unspecified psychiatric diagnoses may sound vague, but they have unique applications. Learn the situations calling for it and how to properly apply the diagnosis.
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In medicine, not otherwise specified (NOS) is a subcategory in systems of disease/disorder classification such as ICD-9, ICD-10, or DSM-IV. It is generally used to note the presence of an illness where the symptoms presented were sufficient to make a general diagnosis, but where a specific diagnosis was not made. The DSM-IV, for example, "applies the term not otherwise specified (NOS) to a disorder or disturbance that does not meet the criteria for the specific disor…
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DSM–5 and DSM-5-TR replaced this designation with two alternatives—either other specified disorder or unspecified disorder— for clinicians to use when describing a …
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What does “unspecified” mean in diagnostic terms? An unspecified diagnosis is used when a clinician has determined that a child’s challenges fall within a certain group of disorders, but it’s not clear exactly which diagnosis in …
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