In some cases, diagnoses became less specific and in some cases more specific (e.g., herpes simplex virus was coded to herpes while VZV encephalitis had a specific ICD-10 code from 1995).
As the point of diagnosis is moved ever earlier to smaller tumours, with radiological signs that tend to become less specific, more queries will concern benign and borderline lesions or lesions that turn out to be low-grade in situ or invasive tumours [ 3].
As CT descriptions of the various diffuse lung diseases are being continuously refined and certain CT characteristics are considered pathognomonic while others become less specific, HRCT finds its role in an integrated approach of diagnosis where it provides sufficient information to produce a differential diagnosis and in many cases allows a non-invasive definitive diagnosis [1].
Presidents, both Democratic and Republican, have asserted greater power in recent decades to dictate the shape of regulations, while Congress has become less specific in its instructions.
Jessica Scaperotti, a health department spokeswoman, said the city had become less specific to guard patient confidentiality, but also because the disease had become so widespread that officials were more interested in the big picture.
"When speaking with her husband, Dr. Ford changed her description of the incident to become less specific," Mitchell wrote.
Responses became less specific as numerosity increased within each order of magnitude, and as the leading digit increased from 1 to 9 (figure 2B,C).
Responses became less specific as the leading-digit increased from 1 to 9, and 69% of responses for weekly texts sent were rounded by participants to a single non-zero digit (eg, 2, 20 and 200).
Later the position became less specific, the only requirement being that the room be accessible from both the sanctuary and the nave and sometimes from outside the church.
As displayed in Figure 2C, we observed a significant enrichment of additional motifs CATTTG, CATCTG, CAACTG, potentially indicating that MYCN binding becomes less specific when it is highly abundant.
