The levels in this new diabetic retinopathy disease severity scale consist of five scales with increasing risks of retinopathy.
Criteria
Clinical Criteria for Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders in Acute Stroke
A DNR order may be written any time that two of the following clinical criteria are present and the prognosis has become clear for and shared whenever possible between physician(s), patient, and family (or appropriate surrogate).
Criteria for Chronic Respiratory Failure in Infants and Children
Criteria for Chronic Respiratory Failure due to Cardiopulmonary Disorders in Infants and Children
Clinical criteria
- Decreased inspiratory breath sounds
- Increased retractions, use of accessory muscles
- Cyanosis breathing room air
- Decreased level of normal activity/function
- Poor weight gain (mass) (IMPORTANT)
RIFLE Criteria for Acute Renal Dysfunction
RIFLE, a newly developed international consensus classification for acute kidney injury, defines three grades of severity
Indications for Percutaneous Renal Biopsy
Indications for percutaneous needle biopsy include
ROME II Diagnostic Criteria for Functional Disorders of the Anus and Rectum
The diagnosis of a Functional Disorder of the Anus and Rectum always presumes the absence of a structural or biochemical explanation for the symptoms.
CDC Diagnostic Criteria for Psittacosis (Ornithosis)
1996 Case Definition
Clinical description
An illness characterized by fever, chills, headache, photophobia, cough, and myalgia
Staging of Prostate Cancer
The Tumor-Node-Metastasis (TNM) System
Diagnostic Criteria for Preeclampsia
Preeclampsia: For the diagnosis of preeclampsia, both hypertension and proteinuria must be present.
- Blood pressure: 140 mm Hg or higher systolic or 90 mm Hg or higher diastolic after 20 weeks of gestation in a woman with previously normal blood pressure. Systolic increased > 30 mm Hg or diastolic increased > 15 mm Hg in a patient with preexisting chronic hypertension.
- Proteinuria: 0.3 g or more of protein in a 24-hour urine collection (usually corresponds with 1+ or greater on a urine dipstick test)
Diagnostic Criteria for Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
There is no universally agreed upon or thoroughly validated set of criteria for the diagnosis of PMR. In the absence of any pathognomonic test, we use the following three criteria for the clinical diagnosis of PMR(1,2):