Next to inexpensive drugs, there is an urgent need for affordable diagnostic methods.

An expensive diagnostic method, magnetic resonance imaging, also slipped in under the old rules.

The course advocates using traditional diagnostic methods when possible, as opposed to performing high-tech tests.

As new diagnostic methods become available, the "gold standard" test may change over time.

It is a clinical diagnostic method to determine a patient's haemorrhagic tendency.

However, the diagnostic methods and tools available from either approach are generally the same.

Once this has been established, the following diagnostic methods are used:

The diagnostic methods for gall stone disease have changed appreciably during the study period.

This diagnostic method is a low cost one compared with other techniques.

The following diagnostic methods are not routinely available to patients.