diagnostic overshadowing
English
Noun
diagnostic overshadowing (uncountable)
- The mistaken attribution of signs and symptoms of a medical condition to a pre-existing known condition.
- 2009, Bob Gates & Owen Barr, Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability, →ISBN, page 106:
- Clearly the consequences of diagnostic overshadowing could be potentially fatal for some people with learning disabilities as their true unerlying health need will not be identified and treated.
- 2012, Derald Wing Sue, Counseling the Culturally Diverse, →ISBN:
- Multicultural awareness can, in fact, lead to diagnostic overshadowing if clinician attention to race or other diversity issues results in neglect of other important aspects of the client (Vontress & Jackson, 2004).
- 2007, Robert L. Schalock, User's Guide: Mental Retardation, →ISBN, page 15-16:
- Accurate diagnosis is often complicated due to two factors: diagnostic overshadowing and challenging behaviors.
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