<unk>  is the attribution of a person’s symptoms to a psychiatric problem when such symptoms actually suggest a comorbid condition.<unk>  occurs when a healthcare professional assumes that a patient's complaint is due to their disability or coexisting mental health condition rather than fully exploring the cause of the patient's symptoms. Often, once a patient has a confirmed diagnosis, there is a tendency to attribute all new behaviors or symptoms to the original diagnosis.<unk>  increases the risk of further health complications and delay in accurate treatment. An example of<unk>  may be a patient being diagnosed with a psychiatric problem and prescribed medication due to head banging behavior, but the patient actually has communication challenges and can't express pain in their mouth due to a dental abscess.
Diagnostic overshadowing
Blissful ignorance effect
Unwarranted variation
Construct validity
Inequality in disease
Aseptic sampling
False positives and false negatives
Misuse of p-values