list of medical diagnostic tests that are considered questionable, unverified or refuted. Applied kinesiology, including the Bi-Digital O Ring Test Barnes...
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recognized in the DSM. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience § Health and medicine List of questionable diagnostic tests List of fictional diseases...
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Medical diagnosis (redirect from Diagnostic criteria)
various diagnostic tests. A diagnostic test is any kind of medical test performed to aid in the diagnosis or detection of disease. Diagnostic tests can also...
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the most commonly-used diagnostic test. PCR tests by nasopharyngeal swab have a sensitivity of 73%, but systematic analysis of specificity has not been...
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throughout the state. HIV antibody tests are specifically designed for routine diagnostic testing of adults; these tests are inexpensive and extremely accurate...
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Textbook of Medicine) that Rorschach "results do not meet the requirements of standardization, reliability, or validity of clinical diagnostic tests, and...
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Intelligence quotient (redirect from Reliability and validity of IQ tests)
intelligence tests at University of Breslau he advocated in a 1912 book. The many different kinds of IQ tests include a wide variety of item content. Some test items...
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Nerve conduction study (redirect from Ncv test)
medical diagnostic test commonly used to evaluate the function, especially the ability of electrical conduction, of the motor and sensory nerves of the human...
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Quackery (redirect from List of people accused of quackery)
gain attention. Common elements of general quackery include questionable diagnoses using questionable diagnostic tests, as well as untested or refuted...
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Live blood analysis (category Alternative medical diagnostic methods)
Department of Laboratories informed three Pennsylvania chiropractors that Infinity2's "Nutritional Blood Analysis" could not be used for diagnostic purposes...
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House (TV series) (redirect from List of House characters)
own diagnostic team, because many of his hypotheses about patients' illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights, and his flouting of hospital...
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Emotional intelligence (redirect from Emotional intelligence tests)
distinguishing factor in leadership performance. Tests measuring EI have not replaced IQ tests as a standard metric of intelligence. In later research, EI has...
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Clinical metagenomic sequencing (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
detectable by 16S/ITS testing (or 16S/ITS-NGS). This makes questionable the utility of metagenomics in many diagnostic cases. One of the main points to accomplish...
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Prostate-specific antigen (redirect from Prostate-specific antigen test)
biopsy for false positive tests.[medical citation needed] Use of PSA screening tests is also controversial due to questionable test accuracy. The screening...
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"there is no evidence that any aspect of the diagnostic test nor the treatment [...] [is] effective in the treatment of cancer." In addition they state "Nor...
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Hair analysis (alternative medicine) (category Alternative medical diagnostic methods)
explicitly rule out further diagnostic uses for hair mineral analyses in the future, but listed three issues that prevent hair mineral tests provided by the sampled...
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Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (redirect from High complexity testing)
Hits Questionable Tests". Quackwatch. Retrieved 27 February 2024. Jones, Stuart; Campbell, Bruce; Hart, Tanya (February 27, 2019). "Laboratory tests commonly...
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Humphrey visual field analyser (category Diagnostic ophthalmology)
temporally and nasally and tests 76 points. Used for general screening, early glaucoma and neurological conditions The above tests can be performed in either...
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context of educating the public about questionable or potentially fraudulent or dangerous claims and practices, efforts to define the nature of science...
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findings; molecular genetic testing of FGFR1, FGFR2, and FGFR3 may be helpful in establishing the specific diagnosis in questionable cases. Beare–Stevenson...
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Theranos (category Defunct health care companies of the United States)
locations with clinics that would offer in-store blood tests. After many missed deadlines and questionable results from a trial clinic at Safeway's corporate...
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Leukemia (redirect from Treatment of leukemia)
cure leukemia. The tests were successful with some people surviving long after the tests. Observing an abnormally large number of white blood cells in...
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Supplier-induced demand (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
of imaging and diagnostic tests, which has resulted in an upward spiraling of medical costs projected to equal 20% of our GDP by 2015. The advent of newer...
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Lyme disease (redirect from List of people who have died of Lyme disease)
antigen tests, PCR tests on urine, immunofluorescent staining for cell-wall-deficient forms of B. burgdorferi, and lymphocyte transformation tests. Neuroimaging...
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Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (category Personality tests)
have shown correlations of variable strength between positive and negative affect, and these same measures have questionable reliability and validity...
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Psychemedics Corporation (category Companies listed on the Nasdaq)
Corporation has been scrutinized for questionable business tactics, having previously hired the high ranking employees of their clients. "Dr. George Elder...
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Noble cause corruption (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
the goal of developing a compact clinical blood testing machine that would perform multiple diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood. When...
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principle of antiseptics. Secondly, he researched the role of inflammation and tissue perfusion in the healing of wounds. Thirdly, he advanced diagnostic science...
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Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (redirect from Four-glass test)
There are no definitive diagnostic tests for CP/CPPS. It is a poorly understood disorder, even though it accounts for 90–95% of prostatitis diagnoses....
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Controversies in autism (redirect from Intelligence tests and autism)
number of children diagnosed with the autism spectrum has increased dramatically since the 1980s, at least partly due to changes in diagnostic practice;...
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