So far, only one small study has outlined the PPV of selected cardiac malformation diagnoses, reporting excellent validity for common diagnoses but substantial uncertainty regarding less common diagnoses.
We do not believe that our findings can be fully explained by differences in diagnoses, reporting practices or increases in risk factors where information was lacking.
In "Value of Second Opinions Is Underscored in Study of Biopsies" on April 4, the number of incorrect diagnoses reported in the study of cancer patients is alarming and certainly argues in favor of getting a second pathology opinion.
In Ireland, a so-called Patient Clinical Complexity Level (PCCL) is used to determine the cumulative effect of all diagnoses reported for a particular patient.
To use diagnoses reported as present at admission in California hospital discharge abstract data to identify categories of comorbid disease and conditions related to aspiration pneumonia and to assess their association with hospital mortality.
In this study, we present an AMI mortality risk-adjustment model that adjusts for comorbid disease and for AMI severity using information from secondary diagnoses reported as present at admission for California hospital patients.
The significant increase in diagnoses reported in the study may be slightly inflated due to its methodology, in that parents might be less rigorous in deciding to report the diagnoses than clinicians would be.
Here, only diagnoses reported before the age of 15 years are considered.
However, acute health problems, such as tuberculosis and diarrhoea, featured also among the top ten diagnoses reported by the elderly.
This picture is similar to the diagnoses reported in the Cambodian Health Management Information System [29] and reflects the double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in developing countries [30].
