The TCM diagnosis, evolution, points and techniques applied should be recorded in the DRB.
In addition, the area of attention (outpatients or inpatients), the psychiatric diagnosis, evolution time, presence of treatment, response to treatment, and history of aggressiveness, suicidal ideation and suicide attempt from the patients were recorded.
Patient record audits offer several advantages, including detailed information and longitudinal data about symptoms, investigations and diagnosis evolution, but their limitations include the potential for hindsight bias, missing documentation and review time (Zwaan et al, 2010).
Collected parameters epidemiology, clinical and biological parameters, management in the emergency department (ventilatory support), diagnosis and evolution.
Physicians' decisions would be strengthened if they could get help from results of accurate biomarkers reflecting the diagnosis or evolution of the infectious processes.
Specific variables on VAP diagnosis and evolution were included.
Probably the most promising is the assay of alpha-synuclein in the diagnosis and evolution of Parkinson disease.
ISI was diagnosed if sacroiliitis was confirmed bacteriologically or, in the absence of pathogenic agents, if clinical, biological, and radiological data was compatible with this diagnosis and evolution was favourable under antibiotic therapy.
Therefore, patients with a positive CWS clinical prediction rule in the presence of other signs of chest pain must be carefully examined and monitored for the final diagnosis and evolution of chest pain.
ISI was diagnosed if there was bacteriological proof of infection or, in the absence of pathogenic agents, if the clinical, biological, and radiological data was compatible with this diagnosis and evolution was favourable under antibiotic therapy.
We collected information regarding known risk factors for melioidosis (i.e. previous pulmonary disease or history of smoking, diabetes mellitus, chronic disease, alcohol intake, repeated contact with wet soils), medical history of infection, wounds or abscesses, time to diagnosis, disease evolution, date of death if appropriate, and economic burden on patients' families.
