Our approach is also applicable to many voice-based diagnoses such as voice disorder detection, vocal cord dysfunction, and constitutional health diagnosis, expecting more stable results because of the simplicity of the model.
This lack of reliability could limit the interpretation of epidemiological and clinical research programs based on diagnoses such as sepsis.
As such, it is an improvement on current methods and lays the basis for further refinements using more extensive datasets, such as community based diagnoses.
So, it is important to examine the psychometric properties of the K-SADS-PL within a large non-clinic based sample and in children with other diagnoses such as schizophrenia, before it can be recommended for widespread use in other settings.
But in truth, numerous medical and neurological diagnoses, such as migraine headache, are based on the same type of data that psychiatrists use: the patient's history, symptoms and observed behaviors.
Definitions of widespread pain vary and include use of widespread morbidity codes, specific diagnoses such as fibromyalgia, and definitions based on varying numbers and areas of the body.
Chromosomal analysis was not done and diagnoses such as Down's syndrome were based on clinical findings.
Any additional X-rays are used only to exclude other diagnoses, such as a fracture or disturbance of the joint congruency, based on the Ottawa ankle rules [ 5].
It is based on earlier work in that it incorporates a series of measures used by others, including clinical complications such as pneumonia and urinary tract infection, and disease diagnoses such as cancer and emphysema [ 25, 35- 37].
(This questioning of the validity of tight diagnoses such as "depression" or "anxiety" is still alive today).
And "externalizing" diagnoses such as bipolar disorder may be more attractive to people than some "internalizing" diagnoses such as personality disorders.
