Diagnostic
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From the doctor’s perspective,
diagnostic
classifications like the ICD provide the official language to be used in medical records, discussions with patients and their families, and in billing for services.
For patients,
diagnostic
classifications provide the framework for understanding their own and others’ disease processes.
Finally,
diagnostic
classification provides politicians the language for building or dismantling health programs.
Clearly, the public and social character of
diagnostic
classifications of disease extends to private organizations.
It turns out that psychiatry, in particular, has exhibited leadership and innovation in recognizing the public-policy aspects of
diagnostic
classification.
Both the ICD classification of mental disorders, and its American counterpart, the American Psychiatric Association’s
Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) efforts have taken pains to make
diagnostic
classification accountable as examples of public policy.
Both favor diagnostic, pragmatic, experimental, and context-specific strategies.
The field of development policy can and should be reunified around these shared diagnostic, contextual approaches.
Despite the fact that in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa more than half of all TB patients are HIV-positive, most HIV/AIDS testing sites do not offer TB
diagnostic
and treatment services.
Those sites that do offer such testing find it much more difficult to diagnose TB among patients infected with both diseases, because current
diagnostic
tests fail to detect active TB in 60-80 % of people with HIV/AIDS.
Sophisticated X-ray
diagnostic
techniques such as CT scans make it possible to detect many cancers at a treatable stage.
Similarly, we can ask them to answer critical
diagnostic
questions (for example, “How does a helicopter go from hovering in place to flying forward?”)
The autism “epidemic” is set to spread further starting in May 2013, when the next revision of the
diagnostic
manual (DSM 5) will be published.
Moreover, some 400 million Indians in poor rural areas can gain access to better health care in field clinics, where health workers can diagnose and treat some ailments using low-cost
diagnostic
tools, expert software, and online links to physicians.
The plan establishes a framework for raising awareness of the problem, collecting more data, developing new drugs and
diagnostic
tools, encouraging practices to reduce infections, optimizing antibiotic usage, and investing in countries’ health-care and sanitation capacities.
The traditional policy framework, which the new thinking is gradually replacing, is presumptive rather than
diagnostic
.
As a result, it is explicitly
diagnostic
and focuses on the most significant economic bottlenecks and constraints.
If any abnormalities are found, a
diagnostic
test is conducted to confirm the presence of the disease.
It requires a broad range of
diagnostic
and therapeutic capacities – pathology, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and targeted medicines – together with the knowledge and skill to safely administer these life-saving treatments.
Instead, the authorities followed a
diagnostic
approach to prioritize their policies.
A Bangalore company’s
diagnostic
tool to test for tuberculosis and infectious diseases costs $200, compared to $10,000 for comparable equipment in the West.
Psychiatry’s Conceptual MalpracticeNEW YORK – The American Psychiatric Association’s recent proposed changes to its official
diagnostic
manual – the
Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (“DSM”), often called the “bible of psychiatry” – may discredit psychiatric diagnosis more than improve it.
Revising the DSM’s
diagnostic
criteria for the upcoming fifth edition (“DSM-5”) is a heavy responsibility.
The result is a form of conceptual malpractice: intellectual negligence resulting in the formulation of invalid
diagnostic
criteria that will misdiagnose normal individuals as disordered.
The current symptom-based
diagnostic
system was developed partly to answer criticism that psychiatry is just social control of undesirable behavior dressed up as medicine.
Indeed, while the
diagnostic
process – which typically involves sending a sample of blood, urine, or tissue to a laboratory for analysis – may be cumbersome and expensive, health-care providers and sophisticated laboratories remain widely available.
By contrast, in the developing world, millions of people die each year from treatable diseases like malaria, owing to the lack of sophisticated laboratories and alternative
diagnostic
tests.
A POC test that provides an accurate and timely result would provide
diagnostic
access to underserved populations, enabling earlier treatment and helping to avoid mistreatment (treating another disease with similar symptoms).
This class of “rapid
diagnostic
tests” (RDTs), which are also used for infectious diseases like malaria and HIV, satisfy many of the key requirements for global health applications: they are fast and inexpensive, can be conducted easily by an untrained user, and do not require refrigeration.
But they lack the sensitivity to provide adequate
diagnostic
information for many health conditions.
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