Decision Rule to Help Evaluate Patients With Involuntary Weight Loss

Are you evaluating a patient with involuntary weight loss?

Yes

Does the patient smoke?

Yes

Number of pack years of cigarette smoking

Has the patient had a decrease in activities due to fatigue?

Yes

Does the patient complain of nausea or vomiting?

Yes

Has the patient had a recent improvement in appetite?

Yes

Does the patient have a cough that has recently changed?

Yes

Are there findings on physical examination suggesting a physical explanation for the weight loss?

Yes

Results

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Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

Discriminant function score

Estimated probability of a physical cause explaining the involuntary weight loss

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Risk Factors
- Risk Factors for Weight Loss in Patients with HIV Disease
Clinical Diagnosis, Including Family History For Genetics
- Causes of HIV/AIDS Wasting
- Cancer Cachexia Syndrome
Criteria For Diagnosis
Severity, Prognosis, Stage
- Criteria for Grading Weight Loss Over a Period of Time
- Cancer Cachexia Prognostic Factors

Therapy

Options

Monitoring

Disease Progression
- Clinical Features of Diabetic Neuropathic Cachexia
- Consensus Development Panel Criteria for HIV-Associated Wasting

Evaluation

Results

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Therapy

Monitoring

Specialty

Objective

ICD-10

Decision Rule to Help Evaluate Patients With Involuntary Weight Loss

Purpose: To separate patients with involuntary weight loss who are likely to have a physical cause from those without a physical cause.

Evaluation

Results

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Therapy

Monitoring

Specialty

Objective

ICD-10