The phrase "a consequence of diagnostic" is not correct in English.
It seems to be missing a noun after "diagnostic" to clarify what type of diagnostic is being referred to.
Example: "The delay in treatment was a consequence of the diagnostic process taking longer than expected."
Alternatives: "a result of the diagnosis" or "an outcome of the diagnostic assessment".
A consequence of diagnostic error is overuse of ancillary diagnostic tests.
Berrington et al. (2009) estimated that in the USA, approximately 29,000 cancers developed as a direct result of CT examinations in 2007 [24], with children being more likely to develop cancer as a consequence of diagnostic imaging that uses ionising radiation.
This might be a consequence of diagnostic services being stretched or disrupted by these arrangements.
The control group in Norway consisted of women either with mammograms taken outside the program as a consequence of diagnostic procedures or opportunistic screening, and those without any mammograms.
As a consequence of this diagnostic verification, 197 patients did not fulfill the inclusion criteria and were excluded from the study.
Unilateral or bilateral thyroidectomy was performed in 140 patients (33%), while the majority of patients, 284 (67%), were not operated upon as a consequence of full diagnostic procedure including NCB diagnosis, patient's request or, in the case of undifferentiated carcinomas, inoperability.
In recent years the ILAE has been able to advance human epilepsy classification to a sophisticated level as a consequence of advanced diagnostics and the uncovering of an increasing number of mechanisms (including genetic) that lead to epilepsy.
The high number of STs represented by single isolates could be a consequence of suboptimal diagnostics, limited and biased sampling, ineffective or non-existing contact tracing, local and recent emergence of new STs and import of strains.
Hospitalisation is likely to be a frequent consequence of diagnostic delay in HIV-infected people.
The problem of brain metastases will probably become more important since patients survive longer [ 3, 4], as a consequence of more accurate diagnostic tools, of more aggressive and effective adjuvant and locoregional treatment but, also, as a consequence of better palliative therapy.
As a consequence of these 2 points, diagnostic methods, screening for complications and therapeutic measures were not standardized.
