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Step 3: Verify the Diagnosis
•Identify the illness as accurately as possible
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•Requires review of clinical findings and laboratory results
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•Also requires talking to case-patients about their illness
This photograph shows researchers at work in a CDC laboratory identifying the cause of an infectious disease outbreak.
Speaking Points

•In order to verify the diagnosis one must identify the illness as accurately as possible

•This process requires thorough review of clinical findings and laboratory results

•Additionally, it is useful to talk to case-patients about their illness, as they may have insights that the clinicians involved may have missed