diagnostiserade

Diagnostiserade is the past tense and past participle form of the Swedish verb diagnostisera, which means to determine the nature of a disease or condition by assessing signs, symptoms, and test results. The noun form related to this process is diagnos, meaning a diagnosis.

In use, diagnostiserade appears in both active and passive constructions. In active voice, it describes who performed the diagnosis, for example: Läkaren diagnostiserade patienten med diabetes. In passive voice, the sentence would typically read: Patienten diagnostiserades med diabetes. The participle form diagnostiserad also functions as an adjective to indicate that a subject has received a diagnosis, as in en diagnostiserad patient, or den diagnostiserade patienten, though stylistic preferences vary and more explicit phrases such as “patienten som fått diagnos” are also common.

Context and scope. The term is most common in medical writing, patient records, and clinical communication, but it can appear in journalism and research describing how a condition was identified. While the concept centers on identifying illnesses, diagnostisering is always tied to using clinical information and, often, diagnostic tests to reach a conclusion. The related noun dianosis provides the outcome of the process: a specific diagnosis that guides treatment and management.

See also: diagnos, diagnosverktyg, diagnosis, medical terminology.