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Diagnostics - Global - World Health Organization (WHO)
Diagnostics are the most important tools that empower the health workforce in the identification of diseases or health conditions. They allow the initiation of treatments in order to avoid further complications and costly treatments for patients.
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Global Diagnostics Coalition
The Global Diagnostics Coalition is a WHO managed network, administered and housed within WHO. It has 3 objectives: Conduct advocacy activities that raise awareness and increase support of WHO diagnostic leadership and capacity strengthening efforts as essential health services for management of all health conditions.. Conduct advocacy activities to raise awareness of the essential role of ...
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WHO TB guidelines: recent updates
The new recommendations on diagnostics are accompanied by a WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 3: Diagnosis – rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection (4). The handbook aims to facilitate the implementation of WHO guidelines by countries, technical partners and others involved in managing patients with TB and drug-resistant TB.
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Call for public consultation - Defining the term “diagnostics”
Diagnostics are medical devices that provide information about diseases, physiological status, or health conditions in medicine and public health, with any of the following test purposes: screening, detection, prevention, surveillance, diagnosis or aid to diagnosis, monitoring, prediction, investigation, prognosis, or staging.
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WHO publishes new Essential Diagnostics List and urges countries to ...
To address the lack of access to tests and testing services in multiple countries, WHO since 2018 has published a yearly essential diagnostics list (EDL), a basket of recommended in vitro diagnostics that should be available at point-of-care and in laboratories in all countries to increase timely and life-saving diagnoses. The latest edition, published today, includes WHO-recommended COVID-19 ...
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First-ever WHO list of essential diagnostic tests to improve diagnosis ...
To address this gap, WHO today published its first Essential Diagnostics List, a catalogue of the tests needed to diagnose the most common conditions as well as a number of global priority diseases. “An accurate diagnosis is the first step to getting effective treatment,” says Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
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In vitro diagnostics - Global - World Health Organization (WHO)
In vitro diagnostics (IVDs) are tests that can detect disease, conditions and infections. In vitro simply means ‘in glass’, meaning these tests are typically conducted in test tubes and similar equipment, as opposed to in vivo tests, which are conducted in the body itself.
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Landscape analysis of commercially available and pipeline in vitro ...
The Landscape analysis of commercially available and pipeline in vitro diagnostics for fungal priority pathogens focuses on commercially available diagnostic products and pipeline diagnostic products for invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) and on the identifiable gaps.
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Medical devices - World Health Organization (WHO)
Policies, strategies, and action plans for health technologies, specifically for medical devices, are required in any national health plan. Within the context of a robust health system they ensure access to safe, effective, and high-quality medical devices that prevent, diagnose, and treat disease and injury, and assist patients in their rehabilitation. WHO’s “Global Model Regulatory ...
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International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
ICD purpose and uses As a classification and terminology ICD-11: allows the systematic recording, analysis, interpretation and comparison of mortality and morbidity data collected in different countries or regions and at different times; ensures semantic interoperability and reusability of recorded data for the different use cases beyond mere health statistics, including decision support ...