Bull World Health Organ. 1981;59(5):717-28.
This Memorandum assesses eight widely-used diagnostic procedures with the aim of establishing their usefulness in patient care. For each procedure, the main methods that can be recommended at present are outlined and their pitfalls discussed. For each procedure, recommendations are made as to the clinical conditions for which the test is essential for diagnosis, the conditions for which the test will help in assessing and monitoring disease activity, and the conditions for which the test is useful for research purposes only.
本备忘录评估了八种广泛使用的诊断程序,目的是确定它们在患者护理中的实用性。针对每种程序,概述了目前可推荐的主要方法,并讨论了其缺陷。针对每种程序,就该检查对诊断至关重要的临床情况、有助于评估和监测疾病活动的情况以及仅用于研究目的的情况提出了建议。