Esophageal testing of patients with noncardiac chest pain or dysphagia.
Covino NA, Warfield CA. Psychological testing of patients in pain.
Some doctors fear that genetic testing of patients could become prohibitively expensive if each gene is patented.
The C.D.C. guidelines to prevent hospital infections, released last month, conspicuously omit universal testing of patients for M.R.S.A. That's unfortunate.
It recommends universal testing of patients for MRSA on admission — so that infected patients might be isolated and treated with special precautions — only if less burdensome efforts fail to reduce infection rates.
Some guidelines recommend kidney function testing of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia; however, the significance of extending this to general population screening is unclear.
To separate out the control, or NGE, individuals, researchers also conduct genetic testing of patients to determine their HD gene status, but due to the ethical implications of such information about minors, all information is deidentified.
HPA genetic testing of patients in England and Wales affected by norovirus last October, when it began circulating again, identified Sydney 2012 as one of a number of strains that were affecting a growing number of patients, which also included another strain called New Orleans 2009.
From the diagnostic point of view, the information provided by our study is of relevance in designing an appropriate strategy for genetic testing of patients in Ecuador and in European countries where immigration from Ecuador is common.
Given that cognitive-behavioural therapy frequently involves the testing of patients' assumptions with the help of behavioural experiments, the measure was designed specifically to assess assumptions that can be addressed using such techniques.
The protocol will identify patients at high risk for C difficile, improve the timing of testing of patients infected on admission, and enhance the appropriateness of C difficile testing throughout the patient's hospitalization.
