We accept the family physician's diagnosis of essential hypertension without doing any confirmatory tests, because this is what happens in practice, and because essential hypertension is, by far, the most likely diagnosis in primary care.
In such cases, the surgeon must have sufficient information and understanding from the preoperative CT imaging and the intraoperative fluoroscopic inlet and outlet views to proceed safely without a confirmatory lateral view.
Her boss, District Attorney Devon Anderson, then instituted a policy that no one could plead guilty without a confirmatory drug test -- and drug dismissals in Houston increased the next year by 31percentt.
Hypoglycemia was defined as clinical symptoms consistent with hypoglycemia, with or without a confirmatory blood glucose measurement.
These ixodid bites were frequent and widespread, especially in children, many of whom were hospitalized without a confirmatory laboratory diagnosis.
It is evident that the recommendation for the treatment of positive VDRL cases without a confirmatory test can cause an overtreatment of pregnant women.
This approach of identifying a derivation cohort and then prospectively testing the resulting model developed is a much more rigorous approach than simply defining and using the model without a confirmatory cohort.
That is, by excluding cases without a confirmatory [Na+] value we may have eliminated a substantial number of patients with hyponatremia who died prior to having the opportunity to have had the second [Na+] checked.
Symptomatic hypoglycaemia was defined as an event with clinical symptoms consistent with hypoglycaemia, with or without a confirmatory BG measurement, and associated with prompt recovery after oral carbohydrate administration.
Out of these, two were among participants later excluded from the study; one (TST 15 mm) did not have a QFT-result and one (TST 17 mm) only had a single positive QFT, without a confirmatory test done.
