Though there is obviously nothing new about these techniques, they do challenge the worker's skill to articulate them precisely on the spot and on the basis of quick and accurate diagnostic assessments.

At certain critical stages, and only for sound diagnostic reasons, it may be important to accompany family members in their use of these resources if their problem-solving behavior is to be constructive rather than defeating.

When alienation is used as an objective and diagnostic category, for example, it becomes clear that Fromm would have to say that awareness of alienation goes far toward conquering it.

Since interviewing is the basic therapeutic and diagnostic instrument of modern psychiatry, the recording of interviews for playbacks and study has been a boost of Redstone proportions in new research and training.

A thorough working knowledge of anatomy is required by physicians, especially surgeons and doctors working in some diagnostic specialties, such as histopathology and radiology.

The fruit is often the most important diagnostic character for plants in this family.

Herceptin, for example, was the first drug approved for use with a matching diagnostic test and is used to treat breast cancer in women whose cancer cells express the protein HER2.

In recent years, studies have shown that the tumour marker Neuron-specific enolase ( NSE ) is often elevated in CJD cases, however its diagnostic utility is primarily seen when combined with a test for the 14-3-3 protein.

Diagnosis of vCJD can be supported by biopsy of the tonsils, which harbour significant amounts of PrPSc ; however, biopsy of brain tissue is the definitive diagnostic test.

In addition, by looking at stylistic changes of ceramics over time is it possible to separate ( seriate ) the ceramics into distinct diagnostic groups ( assemblages ).

Most of the advice sought is diagnostic, with callers describing symptoms and demonstrating sounds of an ailing vehicle while the Magliozzis make an attempt at identifying the malfunction.

The presence of T. cruzi is diagnostic of Chagas disease.

Consistent with this hypothesis, studies that report the highest rates of PCP in Africa are those that use the most advanced diagnostic methods " Duesberg also claims that Kaposi's Sarcoma is " exclusively diagnosed in male homosexual risk groups using nitrite inhalants and other psychoactive drugs as aphrodisiacs ", but the cancer is fairly common among heterosexuals in some parts of Africa, and is found in heterosexuals in the United States as well.

This is in fact the official diagnostic system for mental disorders in the US, but is used more widely in Europe and other parts of the world.

Appropriate use of the diagnostic criteria is said to require extensive clinical training, and its contents " cannot simply be applied in a cookbook fashion ".

It is accepted, however, that there is an " enormous " range of reliability findings in studies, and that validity is unclear because, given the lack of diagnostic laboratory or neuroimaging tests, standard clinical interviews are " inherently limited " and only a (" flawed ") " best estimate diagnosis " is possible even with full assessment of all data over time.

Although these guidelines have been widely implemented, opponents argue that even when a diagnostic criteria set is accepted across different cultures, it does not necessarily indicate that the underlying constructs have any validity within those cultures ; even reliable application can only demonstrate consistency, not legitimacy.

In general, the mainstream psychiatric opinion remains that if a diagnostic category is valid, cross-cultural factors are either irrelevant or are only significant to specific symptom presentations.

Prompt parasitological confirmation by microscopy, or alternatively by rapid diagnostic tests, is recommended in all patients suspected of malaria before treatment is started.

CT pulmonary angiography is the recommended first line diagnostic imaging test in most people.

Consequently, some researchers have disputed that the term " schizoaffective disorder " refers to a well defined condition, and have recommended that the term be removed from or amended in future diagnostic manuals.

A recommended practice for the clinical diagnosis of brain death formulated by the American Academy of Neurology hinges on the conjunction of three diagnostic criteria: coma, absence of brainstem reflexes, and apnea ( defined as the inability of the patient to breathe unaided, that is, with no life support systems ).

This hormone is not recommended as a diagnostic marker, because most teratomas do not secrete it.

Since at least 2010 health organizations have recommended that the RAST test be abandoned as a diagnostic test for allergy in favor of more sensitive fluorescence enzyme-labeled assays.

Both methods are recommended by the NIH guidelines and have similar diagnostic value in terms of sensitivity and specificity.

A review of pathogenic mutations detected in X-linked Alport syndrome patients in 2011, recommended COL4A5 analysis in any patient meeting at least two clinical diagnostic criteria and that COL4A3 and COL4A4 analysis should be considered if a COL4A5 mutation is not detected and primarily if autosomal inheritance is suspected.

" If the full diagnostic workup is completely normal, patient observation is recommended.

These patients were diagnosed with either MCS or vegetative state based on performance on the JFK Coma Recovery Scale and the diagnostic criteria for MCS as recommended by the Aspen Consensus Conference Work-group.

Individuals with a combination of endocrine neoplasias suggestive of the MEN1 syndrome are recommended to have a mutational analysis of the MEN1 gene if additional diagnostic criteria are sufficiently met, mainly including:

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has recommended that physicians refrain from using gadolinium contrast agents on patients with kidney disease " unless the diagnostic information is essential and can not be obtained with non-contrast-enhanced MRI or other diagnostic procedures.

Space was provided for short-time guest medical exhibits, and the Museum collected new accessions of microscopes, medical, surgical, and diagnostic instruments, uniform, and similar items of historical medico-military significance.

For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.

And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.

Hospital outpatient clinic diagnostic service for all costs in excess of $20 a patient.

Standardized screening tools such as Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and HAM-A ( Hamilton Anxiety Scale ) can be used to detect anxiety symptoms and suggest the need for a formal diagnostic assessment of anxiety disorder.

Its density, cleavage and flame test for lithium are diagnostic.

The biotechnology industry has also been instrumental in developing molecular diagnostic devices that can be used to define the target patient population for a given biopharmaceutical.

Associated features are clinical phenomena that often accompany the disorder but are not part of the diagnostic criteria for the disorder.

Several rating scales for the screening and evaluation of bipolar disorder exist, such as the Bipolar spectrum diagnostic scale.

On the other hand instruments for the screening of bipolar disorder have low sensitivity and limited diagnostic validity.

Infrared spectroscopy and mechanical strain as a function of temperature are valuable diagnostic tools for diagnosing such problems.

Rapid diagnostic assay methods are available for the identification of multiple drug-resistant cases.

In 1891, W. Essex Wynter began treating tubercular meningitis by tapping the subarachnoid space, and Heinrich Quincke began to popularize lumbar puncture, which he advocated for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes ..

The DSM has attracted praise for standardizing psychiatric diagnostic categories and criteria.

The DSM can be used clinically in this way, and also to categorize patients using diagnostic criteria for research purposes.

The diagnostic categories and the vast majority of the specific criteria for diagnosis were unchanged.

The APA notes diagnostic labels are primarily for use as a " convenient shorthand " among professionals.