A Justice Department official said when the Cole memo was issued that U.S. attorneys were responsible for interpreting the criteria and applying them to cases in their district, but added that the guidance was not optional.
For example, we interpreted the criterion "uncontrollable fits" as unconsciousness and repeated fits.
(iii) Do clinicians interpret the criteria similarly?
We must not create the feeling, with each individual decision, that we interpret the criteria inconsistently.
However, it is possible that nurses in the two regions interpreted the criteria differently and this gave rise to differences across the two groups of mothers and children.
As such, the Act allows physicians and review committees to newly interpret the criteria in every new case, taking into account the specific circumstances of that case.
In recent years, various instructions, manuals and guidelines for the mental health care sector have been published to: (i) improve the organization of the referral assessment process, (ii) interpret the criteria of prioritization, and (iii) aid the centres in applying the same criteria for different diagnoses and conditions [ 34, 35].
For some traits, particularly ones that rely upon qualitative diagnosis, care is taken to ensure that the same diagnostic criteria are used [ 5], but there is always the possibility that different individuals will interpret the criteria in their own way, leading to heterogeneity in classifying individuals from one sample to the next.
To heal the political rift in Europe and bolster EU legitimacy by helping stimulate growth in the south, Germany should accommodate Prime Minster Renzi's calls for more flexibility in interpreting the Maastricht criteria of the 3percentt budgetary deficit by not counting borrowing for job-creating investment in infrastructure.
Three major concerns arose about interpreting the DSM criteria more loosely in children than in adults.
