The diagnosis and categorization of CKD was established according to the new CKD guidelines [ 9].
The diagnosis and categorization of hypertension were based on the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure [ 21].
We developed three different quality dimensions that reflect the substantial changes in diagnosis and categorization of lymphoid neoplasms over the last half century and the heterogeneity in occupational cohort studies with regard to industry, sample size, and documentation of benzene exposure.
The clinical classification software is a diagnosis and procedure categorization scheme developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to identify disease specific or procedure specific hospital admission by grouping individual ICD-9-CM codes into clinically meaningful categories.
To date, serum biomarkers for bladder cancer lack optimal sensitivity and specificity to assist in diagnosis and disease categorization.
An efficient planning of the therapeutic strategy is based on their effective diagnosis and clear categorization, in view also of the numerous treatment options available for their management.
The CCS is a diagnosis and procedure categorization scheme that aggregates ICD-9-CM codes into a smaller number of clinically meaningful categories.
The "periodontal disease diagnosis threshold (PDT)" categorization was computed as follows: First, the total number of sites in the study participants that exhibited gingival bleeding on gentle probing was counted and those that were ≥ 30% were categorized as one group from those which had < 30% of the sites affected.
Other limitations include the collection of hospitalization data, which was based on primary discharge diagnosis, and the broader categorization of causes of hospitalization, which removed some granularity in the data.
There were no significant differences between the groups with regard to gender, performance status (PS) at ASCT, ISS categorization at diagnosis and myeloma type, except for age at ASCT, and planned post-ASCT therapy.
