Sentence examples for of diagnostic instability from inspiring English sources
A considerable amount of diagnostic instability characterizes all psychiatric diagnoses.
As diagnosis is intended to reflect a relatively stable set of clinical features and is used to predict treatment response and clinical course, this level of diagnostic instability is disconcerting.
This strategy identifies several risk factors or predictors of diagnostic instability in subjects with chronic schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Claims data may not adequately capture this type of diagnostic instability and the algorithm developed in the study may not reflect actual changes in diagnoses.
In cases, where there was evidence of diagnostic instability our diagnostic stratification was based on the most prominent diagnosis by a consultant psychiatrist.
In the analyses, the problem of diagnostic instability was avoided by grouping the patients according to their confirmed diagnosis at one-year follow-up.
We also expected that personality disorders may represent an important mediating role for symptoms fluctuations and, thus, diagnostic crossover within ED, but interestingly, our data do not support that view, as we did not observe an effect of axis-II comorbidities on diagnostic instability in our sample.
This study draws attention to the presence of psychiatric comorbidities of axis I being linked, in a prospective view, to increased changes in the symptomatology of ED, and accordingly to diagnostic instability in ED.
The results of that study point to a role of mood disorders being linked to diagnostic instability.
Given that diagnostic crossover is a frequent phenomenon, and ED patients often show treatment resistance, and a considerable part of patients has an ominous course of the illness, a deep understanding of the diagnostic instability could give important inputs for new treatment strategies.
So far, while being of importance for recognising and treating, it is not clear which are the underlying mechanisms of the diagnostic instability.
