Sentences with phrase «other diagnostic measures»

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But for a new version of Trumpcare or any other initiative to succeed, the measure must at least arrest the relentlessly rising costs for hospital stays, MRIs, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that threaten to swamp the federal budget, shrink take - home pay for families, or pummel both.

While some research was previously done by his and other groups on a smaller scale, «This is the first real description of a method that could be used broadly across a range of conditions to operationally measure diagnostic errors and associated bad outcomes so that we can track our performance and see whether our interventions are making a difference,» Newman - Toker says.

O'Neill's team calls for $ 2 billion over five years for blue - sky research into antibiotics and other antibacterial measures such as diagnostics and vaccines.

In the large negative hydrogen ion source at NIFS, various types of diagnostics are available for measuring negative hydrogen ion density, electron density, and other quantities.

Among other aspects, this applies to diagnostics and measures in primary therapy: The guidelines address the performance of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan in specific therapeutic indications, explicitly advising against routine MRI scans.

As a next step, Bradshaw, De Jager and their colleagues plan to measure CD33 and TREM2 levels in subjects as part of the Brigham Healthy Aging Project to determine if these measurements and others could be part of a diagnostic panel for predicting risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Participants reported their pain levels and disability levels after spinal manipulation, and researchers used ultrasound, MRI and other diagnostics to measure changes in each participant's back, includingmuscle activity, properties within the intervertebral discs, and spinal stiffness.

Singh said that one of the first steps should be for researchers and other safety professionals to develop resources to help institutions and clinicians figure out how to identify and measure diagnostic errors accurately.

Meanwhile, when the authors used other blood glucose measures as the diagnostic criteria, they found no significant difference in the likelihood of diabetes and prediabetes among patients with or without SCT.

Where other diagnostic imaging procedures — such as x-rays, computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound — offer pictures of physical structure, molecular imaging allows physicians to see how the body is functioning and to measure its chemical and biological processes.

Two other enhancements were made at LLE: the quality of the target shell was improved to make it more easily compressed, and the diagnostics for measuring what's taking place within the shell have gotten better.

In this session, participants will learn about what makes some assessments better than others, why student progress measures are almost entirely useless, why most tests will never produce useful diagnostic information on students, and why most school assessment systems do not do the things they are intended to do.

Beyond the four, a teacher can administer any of the other measures as needed for further diagnostic information.

We are also able to measure ionized calcium and other electrolytes with this diagnostic machine.

Researchers will investigate novel methods of measuring chronic pain hypersensitivity in cats with osteoarthritis and other degenerative joint diseases to improve diagnostic and treatment strategies.

Optometrist Assistants help optometrists by conducting diagnostic tests, recording and measuring vision, testing eye function, instructing patients in inserting and caring for their contact lenses, preparing the examination rooms, cleaning and arranging the equipment, answering phones, and making appointments, amongst other tasks.

Infant and early childhood screening and assessment tools and measures (including NBO training, NCAST Parent - Child Interaction Scales training, DC: 0 - 3R training, and many other screening and diagnostic tools)

This was assessed via 3 measures: (1) parental cigarette smoking (for the month before assessment) at the 5 -, 6 -, and 9 - year follow - up; (2) parental alcohol problems, based on questions from the Composite International Diagnostic Inventory35 relating to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition36 alcohol abuse / dependence symptom criteria, in the 12 months before the 5 -, 6 -, and 9 - year follow - up; and (3) parental use of cannabis or other illicit drugs, since the previous assessment, at the 5 -, 6 -, and 9 - year follow - up.

As was the case with the internalizing / externalizing scales, many of these broad - band measures have successfully discriminated between different diagnostic groups (concurrent / predictive validity) and they tend to be significantly associated with other measures purported to be measuring the same constructs (i.e., convergent validity; range =.03 — .92; median =.42).

Also, two types of validity data were summarized: concurrent / predictive validity (or criterion - related validity, which includes reported correlations between the measure and outcomes that the measure was expected to predict, including differentiation between diagnostic categories) and convergent validity (which includes correlations between the target measure and other measures that are purported to assess the same construct).

Fatigue severity (measured on the Chalder Fatigue Scale or any other validated fatigue scale); clinical response (as defined by trial authors based on diagnostic interview or specified cut - off on validated scales).

Data were obtained through structured diagnostic interviews, and other measures of psychopathological outcomes and functional impairment.

Replication and extension of these findings should include complementary measures of both health status and care, potentially including parent and physician reports, self - reports from older children and adolescents, and potentially even results of laboratory or other confirmative diagnostic tests.