While this approach is clearly useful for situations that involve diagnostic procedures, its applicability to other short-term health states such as infections is limited.
The phrase "medical tourism" is usually reserved for trips involving diagnostic tests and medical procedures falling within the scope of biomedicine.
Current and potential applications of nanotechnology in medicine range from research involving diagnostic devices, drug delivery vehicles to enhanced gene therapy and tissue engineering procedures.
MH, BH and CB were involved in the diagnostic procedures, interpretation and discussing the results, and in critically revising the manuscript for important intellectual content.
Furthermore, there is no biosafety issue involved in the diagnostic procedure, and the test can be performed on archival pathologic specimens.
Composite variable consisting of MRI abdomen, other diagnostic procedures involving the abdomen or pelvis, radiologic small bowel examination, rectum or anus diagnostic procedures, urinary tract diagnostic procedures, radiographic visualization of the gallbladder, and abdominal radiologic examination.
It has a wide margin of safety, and as of 2005 had been studied in over 12 000 operative and diagnostic procedures, involving over 10 000 patients from 105 separate studies (ketamine package insert 2005).
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On the one hand, in some countries, screening radiographers are involved in film-reading and diagnostic procedures.
Pregnant women who show signs that their fetuses may have anemia, which in serious cases can require treatment even before the baby is born, have traditionally been advised to go undergo diagnostic procedures that involve physically piercing their wombs.
