Jason Soncrant

Sep 15, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Matthew Smith |Jodi Young |Brad Tracy |Jason Soncrant

1 INTRODUCTION Patients with similar diagnoses can have highly variable ‘clinical trajectories’ or prognoses (Tousignant-Laflamme et al., 2022). A prognosis is a prediction of a patient's degree of change or likely status over time (Beattie & Nelson, 2007; Tousignant-Laflamme et al., 2017). Understanding one's prognosis may be useful in avoiding unnecessary care, and reducing medicalisation and overdiagnosis (van der Velden et al., 2020; van Dijk, Faber, Tanke, Jeurissen, & Westert, 2016).