Previous studies have shown that medically certified absence rates predict all cause mortality, 3 8 but to our knowledge only one study, of very long term sickness absence (>8 weeks), 9 has linked diagnosis-specific sickness absence with mortality.
It was envisioned that implementing this health insurance model for MDR-TB patients could go a long way towards averting the majority of OOP expenditure in the private sector, especially by linking diagnosis and supply of drugs for MDR-TB with the national TB control programme of Government of India [13].
Establishing networks that effectively link diagnosis with care are also of utmost importance.
The diagnosis of FASD is often delayed or missed [ 4, 14- 16], despite evidence linking diagnosis and intervention to improved educational, social and health outcomes [ 17, 18].
In order to inform the design of a mobile health application for STIs that supports self-testing and self-management by linking diagnosis with online care pathways, we aimed to identify the dimensions and range of preferences for user interface design features among young people.
The 2009 supplement presented diverse evidence relevant to early diagnosis, linking late diagnosis with poor survival and 'avoidable deaths', going so far as to quantify this (Abdel-Rahman et al, 2009) – figures that have been used to drive increased spending and activity in the area since.
The present prospectively designed 15-year longitudinal research was conducted to study whether locus of control is linked to diagnosis, to major symptoms, to functioning and recovery, and to personality for schizophrenia patients, depressive patients, and patients with other major disorders.
However, the cause of injury is not linked to diagnosis on the patient record form.
The inclusion of such a broad range of mental disorders is based on the finding that mechanisms of psychotherapy are not specifically linked to diagnosis [ 6].
This is due to the lack of large administrative databases linked with diagnosis that would provide the basis for analysis of resource use, rendering most cost-effectiveness studies to rely on published sources (Karnon and Brown, 2002).
As these models reflect the functioning of biological mechanisms, it is likely that the classification obtained will be more linked to diagnosis or prognosis than a classification obtained by a non-biological modeling.
