Sentences with phrase «standard diagnostic methods»

Researchers gave them a series of drug challenges and spirometry tests (the standard diagnostic methods for asthma) to confirm or rule out the disorder.

Genomic data enabled the scientists to tell these two scenarios apart, which would have changed the treatment philosophy used — this would be difficult using standard diagnostic methods.

Not exact matches

Many doctors will be willing to follow you with lab work and diagnostics for a defined period of time while you try alternative methods, but since they're bound by a defined standard of care (and can be sued if they don't follow it and something bad happens) they may only feel comfortable doing this for a short period of time, or only if your symptoms are mild.

In these variations, diagnostics associated with the autoimmune condition can be typically assessed using one or more of: a blood test, spirometry, imaging based method, endoscopy, biopsy, and any other standard method.

In the absence of a true diagnostic standard, 2 methods were used to determine accuracy: (1) blinded comparison between the clinician's diagnosis and the consensus best estimate; and (2) accuracy of 3 raters estimated using latent class analysis.

This course provides an overview of standard assessment and diagnostic methods in mental health counseling, which includes the classification, description and differential diagnosis of mental health and substance use disorders.