In a systematic review, Patton et al (2008) evaluated the effectiveness of toluidine blue (TB), ViziLite Plus with TBlue, ViziLite, Microlux DL, Orascoptic DK, VELscope, and OralCDx brush biopsy for the early detection of oral premalignant and malignant lesions (OPML). These researchers abst...
As was noted in the introduction, the K10 scale has already been shown to be significantly better than the widely used GHQ-12 in screening for ICD-10 disorders.9 The fact that the K6 can easily and quickly be either self-administered or interviewer-administered in less than 2 minutes and ...
Performance of Screening Instruments for Alcohol Problems in the ER: A Comparison of Mexican- Americans and Mexicans in Mexico1 * The performance of standard screening instruments and alternate measures against ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision) and DSM-IV (Diagnostic and...
light-for-gestational-age infantmean bodyweight −1.5SDmorbidity ratesmall-for-gestational-age infant10th percentileThe International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) defines the 10th percentiles on the fetal growth curve as the cutoff point for light- and ...
World Health Organization. The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders: diagnostic criteria for research. Geneva: World Health Organization; 1993. Zatzick DF, Jurkovich GJ, Gentilello L, et al. Posttraumatic stress, problem drinking, and functional outcomes after injury. Arch Surg...
depression. All 10 items are scored to provide a sum score, with higher scores indicative of more severe depressive symptoms. The EPDS has been included in the current study for two reasons: (a) to screen for depressed mood, and (b) to be evaluated as a screening tool for perinatal AD....
Subgroup analysis was conducted across the studies by sociocultural setting and proportion of participants with no formal education, and for patients with MCI. Sociocultural settings were classified as HIC or LMIC. Studies with ≥10% participants with no formal education were classified as having a ...
However, screening procedures in practice often focus on only one or two conditions (e.g., alcohol and depression) and screen for each disorder separately. One of the challenges to screening for multi-morbidity is the 5 to 10 min of time it takes to accurately screen for each individual ...
To identify refugees who screened positive for TBI, we used data from Siloam collected on the Tennessee Initial Refugee Health Assessment (TIRHA) form during initial screening visits. To determine treatment initiation, we abstracted data from the TB Risk Assessment Tool and the Patient Tracking ...
The algorithm defines recurrence when at least 1 of the following 4 indicators occurs: Metastasis code (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision [ICD-10] DC76-80) present in the DNPR or the DCR without a new primary cancer diagnosis other ...