Problem oriented medical records Abrev POMR

The POMR system is a logical system centered around the identification and resolution of the patient's problems. The problem oriented approach differs from other approaches in which a list of differential diagnoses are generated in the exam room, without giving much consideration to the possibility that not all the patient's problems are due to the same cause. Although the problem based approach is also intended to lead to a diagnosis, the problem based approach prevents the clinician from "jumping to a diagnosis" with tunnel vision and potentially overlooking important aspects of the patients disease(s).