63,64 However, confirmation of these bacterial signatures in different patient cohorts and geographical regions controlling for environmental factors is required to determine the signature's clinical ...

2. What are the differences between disease-specific classification criteria and diagnostic criteria? Classification criteria are intended to be used in a medical research setting. Diagnostic criteria ...

13 Birmingham VA Medical Center and University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 14 Duke University and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, ...

The diagnostic criteria for CIDP that were developed by the EFNS/PNS1 are most commonly used and distinguish CIDP from other neuropathic conditions with high sensitivity and specificity. Nevertheless, ...

As a result, the specificity of IBP was lower and the diagnostic gain of IBP was smaller than expected. In the rheumatology setting no striking differences among defined IBP criteria (Calin, Berlin, ...

Objective: To compare the presence of criteria listed in the DSM-5 and ICD-10 diagnostic manuals in a Brazilian sample of transgender persons seeking health services specifically for physical ...

Objective: To provide more rigorous diagnostic criteria for PNS. Methods: An international panel of neurologists interested in PNS identified those defined as “classical” in previous studies. The ...

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) Home Oxygen Guideline provides detailed evidence-based guidance for the use of home oxygen for patients out of hospital. Although the majority of evidence comes from ...

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of cardiac computed tomography ... fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Most studies (85%, 16 studies) used 64-slide ...

With the new diagnostic criteria, this merely signifies to the clinician that a variety of symptoms are present. This “subtype” is a bit tricky. It’s been used when a person has a previous ...

Suggested diagnostic and treatment recommendations for AM and chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathy are mainly based on expert opinion given the lack of well-designed contemporary clinical studies in ...