When presented with the results of the HeadacheSearch computerized search and its accompanying health history and questionnaire, we expect doctors to appreciate its thoroughness and find the information meaningful to establish their diagnosis and helpful to direct effective treatment. Typically headache sufferers visit WhathaveIgot.net because they have not previously achieved satisfactory results. Headache is a symptom and not a disease. If one doesn't know the name of their condition, he or she is unable to make informed decisions regarding their healthcare. HeadacheSearch is a service intended to aid both headache sufferers and physicians.
Diagnosis is a very complex process of inferential logic.
HeadacheSearchtm does not make the diagnosis. It is a decision support system designed to provide information helpful to both users and their doctors. The computer system instantly sorts through more variables and more diseases having headache as a symptom, than the human mind is capable of considering in a reasonable period of time. There is a high statistical probability the correct diagnosis is on the list. The information considered by the computer relates to an average patient.