The distinction between an anxiety disorder and just having normal anxiety is whether your emotions are causing a lot of suffering and dysfunction, says Sally Winston, PsyD, co-director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorder Institute of Maryland in Towson.
Definition - What does Proximate Cause mean? Proximate cause refers to a direct cause of loss, without which the loss would not occur; therefore, it is a highly relevant principle in the insurance industry. For an act or event to be considered a proximate cause, it does not necessarily have to directly precede a loss or begin a chain of occurrences leading to the same.
In these types of cases, when the proximate diagnosis is the main reason for home care, it is reported as the primary diagnosis and the underlying condition is a secondary diagnosis. Occasionally the proximate diagnosis is taken from Chapter 16 symptom codes, as in the abnormality of gait example above.