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Symptoms and clinical language

Prognosis

What is expected to happen over time, described for groups of people rather than for one person.

What it means

Prognosis figures come from studying many people, so they describe a spread rather than predicting an individual. Two people with the same diagnosis can have very different courses. What a number can honestly say, and what it cannot, is covered on the getting set up card.

Why you might hear it

  • It is the word behind most of the statistics found while searching.
  • Teams often prefer to talk about what to plan for rather than how long.

People who may help

Where Compass goes into this

About this explanation

These are plain explanations of words you may come across, not advice about your own situation. Where a word matters to a decision, the question pages go into it properly, and your own team is the place to take it.