Unlike the ophthalmologist, who is a physician with a specialization in the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases (and who may also test vision and prescribe corrective lenses), the optometrist generally is not trained to perform surgery.
It has long been established that overall survival increases with the specialization of the doctors involved in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
Moreover, increased hospital specialization - meaning a hospital that only treats certain diagnosis such as cancer or cardiovascular diseases - is associated with improved patient outcomes after adjusting for hospital procedural volume [ 4, 5].
In clinical diagnosis the complexity of these systems requires user specialization and training in accordance with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) in the USA, ensuring high-quality standards of accuracy, reliability, and timeliness.
Surprisingly, the influence of ICU specialization on patient outcomes has only been studied for a single diagnosis.
In order to elucidate the diagnosis and the correct therapeutic approaches, the present high degree of specialization, as well as the complex, frequent "borderline" pathology, impose an inter-disciplinary cooperation.
At our center we have a unique experience of having the opportunity to follow this population affected by a double diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes and Celiac Disease, combined with an expertise and specialization in this field.
Subgroup analyses were performed for patient gender, age 60-744 years; 75-79 years, 80 years or older), and diagnosis (ICD-10 chapters), as well as for drug type, medication regimen, physician specialization, and consultation type (first vs. follow up).
More generally, for diagnosis and for therapy, mutual-referral patterns were part of the economy of increased medical specialization.
We predict that enhanced understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the drop in specialization that occurs in tumors through better characterization of cancer transcriptome profiles will lead to the development of new molecular diagnosis tools and intervention techniques.
