Sentences with phrase «identify diagnostic criteria»

The prospective cohort study met both its primary endpoints: to determine the association between troponin T levels measured by a high - sensitivity troponin T assay and the risk of death within a month of non-cardiac surgery, and to identify diagnostic criteria for myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery that defines whether or not serious injury to the heart has occurred.

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Using O'Driscoll's diagnostic criteria, the pair identified projectile impact marks on all three bones.

Summary: The major diagnostic criterion for glaucoma is elevated pressure in the eye which identifies a proportion of patients that will develop this blinding disease.

Over the last 10 - to - 15 years, education diagnosticians and physicians have become more aware of the characteristics and diagnostic criteria for identifying individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs).

State special education criteria for identifying intellectual disability: A review following revised diagnostic criteria and Rosa's Law.

These methods have been primarily of 2 types: self - report measures of symptoms (eg, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale27) and structured interview protocols that identify specific disorders (eg, the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule28), which uses the criteria set forth in the DSM - IV.29 By far, the self - report measures are less time consuming and cheaper to administer; however, they do not provide a specific diagnosis.

Significant advances have been made in assessment methods and age - appropriate diagnostic criteria for emotional disorders in young children.29 - 31 Differentiation between symptoms of individual anxiety disorders (e.g., separation anxiety, generalized anxiety) has been found as early as two years of age.6 One novel assessment tool for children aged 3 - 5, the Preschool Anxiety Scale — Revised, captures these various dimensions of anxiety symptoms.32 In addition, attentional bias to threat has been identified as a possible candidate for assessment of risk for anxiety disorders.33

Patients had to fulfil the following criteria: a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective psychosis, or delusional disorder according to criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edition, revised11; no evidence of organic brain disease; substance abuse not identified as the primary problem; age between 18 and 65 years; presence of persistent hallucinations or delusions, or both, for a minimum of 6 months and at least 1 month of stabilisation if they had experienced an exacerbation during this period; stable medication; no psychological or family intervention; their responsible medical officer had given permission for them to enter the study; no serious threat of violence towards the assessors; and they had given informed consent to participate.

Diagnostic criteria must meet standards for «sensitivity» (correctly identifying the presence of something) and «specificity» (not misidentifying other things as being the thing we're looking for).

The Gardnerian PAS diagnostic criteria, while possibly accurate for identifying cases of «parental alienation» in which the narcissistic parent is the allied and supposedly favored parent, do not sufficiently differentiate cases when the targeted parent is the narcissistic parent.

We will then have a clear and definitive set of diagnostic criteria for identifying attachment - based «parental alienation» in all cases, and to which ALL mental health professionals can be held accountable.