Modeling of individual prognoses in clinical medicine

A teleological class of prognostically relevant informations represent the individual medical prognosis. Based on this hypothesis the article analyzes the logical structure of the individual medical prognosis and describes a generalized model of prognostic reasoning in clinical medicine. The individ ual clinical course, the individual patient model, and clinical expectation s of characteristic structure are the basic elements of the model. The appl ication of the model is operationalized by an algorithm.