When a patient comes to the clinic with a combination of symptoms that can be related to one or more conditions, the doctor usually will perform a laboratory test to rule out one of the possible conditions or diseases.This is known as which of the following?

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This process is known as a differential diagnosis, which involves considering multiple potential diagnoses and ruling them out one by one based on the patient's symptoms and the results of various tests. A panel is a group of laboratory tests ordered together to evaluate a particular condition or disease, chronic infection refers to an ongoing infection that may or may not be related to the patient's current symptoms, and fatigue is a symptom that may be present in many different conditions, making it an important factor in the differential diagnosis process but not the correct answer to the question as written.

When a Patient Comes to the Clinic with a Combination