Most impressively, Google Flu Trends, an application that tracks users' "Googling" words associated with the flu, such as "flu symptoms", "flu remedies", and "flu vaccines", tightly matches the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) official flu tracking, which is based on Doctor and hospital survey data that have to be returned to and compiled by the CDC, with one major difference.
Primary care in Britain is based on doctors, nurses and other professionals working closely together.
Even more disconcerting is my "personal health record" on my health insurer's website — a list of my prescriptions and ailments based on doctor visits and pharmacy purchases.
The new findings are based on doctors' measurements of people's height and weight, whereas many previous reports were based on people's reports of their own measurements.
Other products due to launch this year include new Airfix models based on Doctor Who and Shaun the Sheep, the children's TV character.
In Bangladesh, pharmacies sell medicine either based on doctors' prescriptions or on demand.
Estimation of expected survival is usually based on doctors' clinical experience.
According to the inclusion criteria, based on doctor's diagnosis and the criteria of the UK Working Party's refinement of the Hanifin and Rajka criteria 10, 20 children had developed AE at 2 years of age.
Three of the 15 GPs in the videos were semi-purposefully selected for interview (by LC), based on doctor gender, practice location and population socio-economics.
We found that asthma medication was often used as a part of the diagnostic assessment (30%) and 16% of the individuals, had provisional diagnoses of asthma or COPD, i.e. asthma or COPD based on doctor's written notes and no ICD-code recorded (Table 3).
