Dr. Meisels, who is president of the Erikson Institute, a graduate school and research organization in Chicago focusing on early childhood development, told the private schools admissions officers in November that the test was effective at identifying cognitive delays, diagnosing learning disabilities and measuring I.Q., the reasons the test was developed.
Clinical studies conducted by Feig et al. suggested that treating hyperuricemia in adolescents with newly diagnosed hypertension was effective at lowering blood pressure, which indirectly decreased the risk of incidence of CKD [ 32].
Gabrielle Carlson offered the example of the atypical antipsychotic risperidone (Risperdal), which is effective at reducing aggression or rages in children diagnosed with BP--but is also effective in reducing aggression or rages in children with one or more disruptive behavior disorders (ADHD, ODD, and/or CD) and below average intelligence [ 41] as well as in children with autism [ 42].
A knife is effective at close distances.
Several studies published in PLoS Medicine this week conclude that the MTB/RIF test is very effective at diagnosing TB in HIV-positive patients, which is particularly difficult because they often have smear-negative results because their TB is disseminated or extrapulmonary.
Further, unsupervised clustering techniques are presented that can group test scenarios by the resulting performance modes and sort them by those which are most effective at diagnosing changes in the autonomous system's behavior.
This screening is not effective at diagnosing DVT in the absence of other indications that the patient may have this condition.
Initial studies have demonstrated that screening computed tomography (CT) is effective in diagnosing lung cancer at an earlier stage when compared with current clinical practice, however the best clinical approach for screening detected nodules has to be defined.
Your cancer insurance will not be effective if you were diagnosed with cancer before your policy's effective date.
A guiding principle of the NHS Cancer Plan Department of Healthh, 2000), and every subsequent national strategy for cancer, is that early cancer detection and diagnosis saves lives, because treatments are most likely to be effective in people who are diagnosed at an earlier stage.
