Crowdiagnosis project

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mugilan Poongkunran M.B.B.S [2]; Vendhan Ramanujam M.B.B.S [3]

Overview

Common diseases occur commonly. Indeed we often teach medical students "if you hear hoof beats it is a horse not a zebra". But for some patients, the diagnosis escapes clinicians, and they are one of those few "zebras".

The goal of the Crowdiagnosis Project (AKA Operation Zebra, ZebraMed, or Zebra Hunters) is to help those patients and doctors who face a rare diagnosis. For 8 years now, the WikiDoc team has been assembling a database that contains the largest repository of all the causes of all signs and symptoms. For all symptoms and signs we display an intensively researched list of all its potential causes that has been vetted by numerous physicians from around the world.

Statement of Need

There are many lists of "differential diagnosis", but they are static and incomplete. The Crowdiagnosis Project (AKA Operation Zebra, ZebraMed, or Zebra Hunters) is the ultimate compilation list of all those lists.

• Free universal access to the world's most complete list of all the causes of various medical symptoms, signs and laboratory abnormalities
• Organization of all the potential causes of a sign or symptom into

• Life threatenting causes (diseases that may result in death if not treated within the next 24 hours),
• Common causes

• Lists that can be searched by organ system or alphabetically
• Free universal access to the epidemiology of all the causes to assess the frequency of a rare disease
• Free universal access to the treatment of all the potential causes of a rare disease

• The need for a database to develop an artificial intelligence program for medical professionals to identify the underlying disease in a patient with multiple symptoms

This project will meet the above needs by

• Collecting all causes from an extensive search of every possible trusted scholarly resources by involving many expertise
• Creating the first well structured compilation of causes, which is made accessible in the most easily searchable form under categories like life threatening causes, common causes, causes by organ system and causes in alphabetical order. For example, if a rheumatologist is working up a patient for a case of pericarditis, he/she can simply look for all the possible causes of pericarditis in the rheumatology section without having to go through hundreds of causes to find it.
• Having all the spreadsheets created while working on the project amassed together to form a large database that will be useful to develop the artificial intelligence

How Can WikiDoc Meet these Needs

WikiDoc is a global collaboration involving over 7,000 contributors at present. As such, it is the ideal entity to leverage the expertise of experts from around the world to "Crowdiagnose" a given constellation of signs, symptoms and laboratory findings. As our founder C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. always says "The tribe is smarter than any individual".

How Can You Help WikiDoc Meet These Needs

This project is intended for editors at an Assistant Editor-in-Chief level or higher. This may be the right project for you if you are a medical student, intern, resident, fellow, attending physician, academic hospitalist, specialist, medical faculty and researcher. WikiDoc gladly welcomes your involvement as an editor, contributing to this pioneer project. It can be done both on site and remotely after selecting your topic from our extensive list.

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