In fact, the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association do not currently consider computer addiction a valid diagnosis, a controversy we'll discuss later.

The same taxon had already been given the name "Hyacinthoides x variabilis" by P. D. Sell in 1996 in the Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, but without a valid Latin diagnosis.

As your report points out, this language problem is particularly hazardous in mental health care, where good verbal communication between clinicians and patients is essential in formulating a valid diagnosis and a successful plan of treatment.

In a 1993 New Zealand study, 90% of 83 Otago general practitioners surveyed accepted chronic fatigue syndrome as a clinically valid diagnosis, and 57 stated they had sufficient information to make a diagnosis.

Blog assessing whether carotidynia is a valid medical diagnosis.

He added, "Let us not revise diagnostic criteria that help us make clinically valid standard diagnoses in order to make community prevalence data easier to justify to a skeptical public."

Due to the very small number of recorded cases of SIS, there is doubt about whether it is a valid diagnosis.

Demonic possession is not a valid psychiatric or medical diagnosis recognized by either the DSM-IV or the ICD-10.

"It is a valid diagnosis," Selar said.

One of the programs consists of tables, which contain information for all valid diagnoses, procedures, and DRGs.