diagnostic criteria

(noun)

The term diagnostic criteria designates the specific combination of signs, symptoms, and test results that the clinician uses to attempt to determine the correct diagnosis.

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Examples of diagnostic criteria in the following topics:

  • Comparison of Female and Male Pelves

    • There are several diagnostic criteria for differentiating a male from a female pelvis:
    • Apply the diagnostic criteria to determine whether a pelvis is male or female

  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    • Because they are so often seen with other diseases, these signs and symptoms are not part of the diagnostic criteria for SLE.

  • Breathing Patterns

    • Breathing patterns are an important diagnostic criteria for many diseases, including some which involve more than the respiratory system itself.

  • Stress and Disease

    • Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma(s) through flashbacks or nightmares, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hypervigilance.
    • Formal diagnostic criteria (both DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10) require that the symptoms last more than one month and cause significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

  • Asbestos-Related Diseases

    • According to the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the general diagnostic criteria for asbestosis are: evidence of structural pathology consistent with asbestosis as documented by imaging or histology, evidence of causation by asbestos as documented by the occupational and environmental history, markers of exposure (usually pleural plaques), recovery of asbestos bodies, or other means and exclusion of alternative plausible causes for the findings.

  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    • Because they are so often seen with other diseases, these signs and symptoms are not part of the diagnostic criteria for SLE.

  • Disease Diagnosis

    • From the point of view of statistics the diagnostic procedure involves classification tests.
    • The initial task is to detect a medical indication indicating a diagnostic procedure.
    • A diagnostic test is any kind of medical test performed to aid in the diagnosis or detection of disease.
    • Diagnostic tests can also be used to provide prognostic information on people with established disease.
    • Even during an already ongoing diagnostic procedure, there can be an indication to perform another, separate, diagnostic procedure for another, potentially concomitant, disease or condition.

  • Diagnostic Blood Tests

    • Blood tests are laboratory analyses performed on a blood sample typically taken from a vein in the arm for diagnostic purposes.

  • Spinal Tap

    • A lumbar puncture, or spinal tap, is a procedure used to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), typically for diagnostic purposes.
    • A lumbar puncture, colloquially known as a spinal tap, is a diagnostic procedure performed in order to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for biochemical, microbiological, and cytological analysis.
    • Lumbar puncture is used as a diagnostic procedure for the following:
    • Several substances found in cerebrospinal fluid are available for diagnostic measurement:

  • Skin Color as a Diagnostic Clue

    • Changes in skin color can be diagnostic of trauma (bruising), environmental, or physiological changes (jaundice, melasma, and liver spots).
    • Changes in skin color can be diagnostic of trauma, such as a bruise, or other changes in physiological condition, such as melasma, and liver spots.