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Chapter 2
S.O.A.P.
Term | Definition |
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subjective | It is subject to how a patient experiences and personally describes his or her problem as well as personal and family medical histories. |
objective | Objective data comprise the patient’s physical exam, any laboratory findings, and imaging studies performed at the visit. |
assessment | An assessment could be a diagnosis, an identification of a problem, or a list of possibilities for the diagnosis which is known as a differential diagnosis. |
plan | The plan could be a treatment with medicine or a procedure. It could also consist of collecting further data to help arrive at a more accurate diagnosis |