This last aspect is fundamental, especially in patients who need serial examinations for monitoring disease progression.
However, their performance may be inferior to US examinations for individual monitoring for follow-up of HF patients.
In the subset of ten patients that underwent two PET/CT examinations for therapy monitoring purposes, levels of agreement between the different types of reconstruction were evaluated using the kappa statistic.
Gilts were checked regularly after ET by ultrasonic examination for conception and monitoring of pregnancy.
While 18% of the solutions called for additional resources, mainly for training (8%) or improved availability of consumables (5%), only 16% of the solutions directly required changes in the medical procedures, for examination and monitoring (12%) or treatment (4%).
In addition to the CRP level, physical examination, and monitoring for local symptoms, 4 weeks of follow-up due to a febrile response after TKA may be cost-effective (patients can also check their temperature at home) and necessary to detect early acute periprosthetic infection.
Faecal examination is an important tool for monitoring worm infections in farm animals and an important adjunct to maintaining effective worm control programmes.
Although some midwives have been trained to collect sputum from patients and to send the sample to the district laboratory, patients often have to travel themselves to a district-level TB centre for sputum examination for diagnosis, evaluation and monitoring.
Scoring of examinations can also be used for monitoring disease progression.
Within small working groups moderated by members of our department, plans for monitoring visits (examinations, referral frequency), relevant drugs (including dosage), and documentation forms were developed and brought to a consensus with all participants.
