They do not take into account changes in methods of diagnosis or shifts in population over time.
For these, psychiatrists are good guides to the best methods of diagnosis and treatment.
At the same time, however, officials at the National Cancer Institute affirmed their support for mammography, even as they spoke of the need to "seek improved methods of diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer".
But unlike her column, where each story is the focus of discussion, the patients who appear in the book are springboards for a discussion of how methods of diagnosis, or lack thereof, ultimately drive patient care.
MEDICAL biotechnology may have its troubles, but at least most people favour developing new treatments and methods of diagnosis.
It is not only easily available but also readily acceptable, and often preferred, to more rational methods of diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Robert S. Byrd, an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California at Davis, has tried to clarify the issue by examining the California data to see whether methods of diagnosis or other statistical anomalies could account for the increase.
The conclusion was that "… a substantial number of existing patents on genes and methods of diagnosis pose a threat to the development of multiplex testing, parallel sequencing, and whole-genome sequencing, the areas of genetic testing with the greatest potential future benefits".
Methods of diagnosis that may be predictive of outcome.
Current methods of diagnosis can be lengthy and expensive.
Newer methods of diagnosis and management for all neurological complications of HIV should be addressed.
