Gold standard
Gold standard
This systematic programme of investigation into the organs of the body provides a doctor with a full picture of what is happening in the body and enables the doctor to design an individual programme of treatment to maximum effect and with the minimum of side effects.
The team who designed this new programme in the 1990s had been dissatisfied with the general quality of traditional diagnostic results. Investigations, such as ultra-sound, computer and magnetic-resonance tomography, general and bio-chemical analysis of the blood, liver and hormones, are well-known and widely used. However they are often ordered at the instruction of a doctor who has listened only to symptoms described by a patient and very rarely are they used together in a systematic way. Usually the results are then made available to different specialist doctors (often at long intervals apart) which makes it very difficult to project an accurate clinical picture of a patient’s illness.
The new algorithm of in-depth medical investigation, known as the Gold Standard Diagnostics (GSD), is based on the fundamental principal of cybernetic medicine and provides a systematic approach to a person’s health, both in diagnostics and in treatment. At the heart of the GSD is the fact that, irrespective of what the patient says the matter is or what illness he appears to be suffering from, we undertake a full range of tests. This range is essential for the receipt of all-rounded information about the health of a patient. GSD enables the doctor (or even a panel of doctors in some circumstances) to conduct a systematic analysis of the results, to plan the strategy and tactics of therapy (taking into account their individual requirements and circumstances), and most importantly, to protect against the danger of unforeseen circumstances and illness factors which have not previously been taken into account.
This programme of essential tests enables us to lower to a minimum the percentage of mistakes or unforeseen problems, and protects the patient as he enters on a course of treatment. It is an attempt to identify the first principles of a patient’s illnesses, and not to let slip the finest nuance of any problems which at first sight may not seem to be relevant.
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