See the reference for further explanations and references to some literature.
Template
The clarification for the fields in the template is given in the Interaction template (Actant Dictionary).
| Name |
Diagnosis |
| Domain |
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| Target Outcome |
an agreed strong diagnostic hypothesis |
| Social actors and roles |
analysts; clinical practitioners in various disciplines (medicine, organisation, engineering, climate change,…) |
| Trigger or preceding interaction |
problem statement, a shock, the sensing of a negative trend (e.g. erosion of resources, global warming, excessive risk taking by some actors,…) |
| Interfaces and services |
A diagnostics guideline clearinghouse; a taxonomy for recording properties of (living) things |
| Inputs and outputs |
inputs: evidence (on operations, sensations,…) and comments from the various stakeholders; output: a diagnostic hypothesis that can be defended. |
| Stores and tools |
diagnostic instruments and guidelines, such as the Diagnosis guidelines (at the US National Guideline Clearinghouse) |
| Other characteristics |
| Part of |
Regulative Cycle |
| Parts |
Tests, interviews, surveys, consulting or making observations,… |
| Succeeding Interactions |
solution design, therapy selection, or agenda setting |
| Alternatives |
bypassing diagnosis |
| Action Realm |
Monitoring & Evaluation |
| Risks |
Weak diagnostic hypotheses can lead to wrong therapy (treatment); Bypassing diagnosis with jumping to solutions. |
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| Further reading |
Diagnosis (Wikipedia) |
Because interactions are defined or described as patterns, their realization will require the involvement of entities or continuants: pattern ''parameters'' are bound to entities in the so-called real site work system (see the figure at Regulative Cycle), and bind:
- roles to macro or meso-level actors (stakeholders) in a country, a city, or to pico, micro or meso-level actors (stakeholders) in a sector;
- resources to resources (entities) accessible to the actors (stakeholders), for instance information available in the languages mastered by them (language options in the entity dictionary). Note that existing resource gaps for many stakeholders may make problematic the achievement of the intended interaction ''outcome'', or it may distort the cost-benefit equation.
Moreover, interactions can be bound together in variable ways, to create variants and achieve fit of the interaction to the situation, as indicated in the occurrent binding options. The Multisystemic therapy's First Principle (Finding the Fit) and the supporting distinction between the treatment model and the evidence-based treatment clarifies the utility of the variant creation.
Generalization is used with the meaning explained in Generalizations (Geometric) (Wikipedia).
Position of Diagnosis among the interactions: