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O*NET detailed work activityAnalyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment
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This is an accountable judgment call. Someone has to weigh the full situation and stand behind the decision, and that's you, often with legal or professional responsibility.
Part of Analyze health or medical data, under the O*NET work activity group Analyzing Data or Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 45 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs.
- Order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.
- Analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions.
- Analyze test results and develop a treatment plan.
- Interpret diagnostic test results for deviations from normal.
- Analyze records, reports, test results, or examination information to diagnose medical condition of patient.
- Diagnose diseases and deformities of the foot using medical histories, physical examinations, x-rays, and laboratory test results.
- Analyze and interpret patients' histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.
- Review or transmit images and information using picture archiving or communications systems.
- Evaluate hearing and balance disorders to determine diagnoses and courses of treatment.
- Compile and analyze data obtained from monitoring or diagnostic tests.
- Analyze records, reports, test results, or examination information to diagnose medical condition of patient.
- Interpret diagnostic test results to make appropriate differential diagnoses.
- Interpret clinical or diagnostic test results.
- Analyze genetic information to identify patients or families at risk for specific disorders or syndromes.
- Diagnose neurological conditions based on interpretation of examination findings, histories, or test results.
- Diagnose health conditions, based on patients' symptoms and health histories, laboratory and diagnostic radiology test results, or other physiological measurements, such as electrocardiograms and electroencephalographs.
- Analyze physical findings and medical histories to make diagnoses according to Oriental medicine traditions.
- Determine whether scope of exam should be extended, based on findings.
- Perform or evaluate the results of diagnostic tests, such as radiographs (x-rays) and electrocardiograms (EKGs).
- Analyze and evaluate patient data or test findings to diagnose nature or extent of mental disorder.
- Interpret the results of neuroimaging studies, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans.
- Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
- Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).
- Analyze and interpret results from tests, such as microbial or parasite tests, urine analyses, hormonal assays, fine needle aspirations (FNAs), and polymerase chain reactions (PCRs).
- Analyze x-rays to locate the sources of patients' difficulties and to rule out fractures or diseases as sources of problems.
- Compare measurements of heart wall thickness and chamber sizes to standard norms to identify abnormalities.
- Interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs) and renal functioning tests.
- Analyze and record test data to issue reports that use charts, graphs, or narratives.
- Compare measurements of heart wall thickness and chamber sizes to standards to identify abnormalities, using the results of an echocardiogram.
- Diagnose medical conditions of patients, using records, reports, test results, or examination information.
- Interpret results of preoperative tests and physical examinations.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Order and interpret the results of laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging procedures.
- Perform or interpret the outcomes of diagnostic imaging procedures including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), nuclear cardiology treadmill studies, mammography, or ultrasound.
- Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.
- Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
- Order and interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening, to detect prostate cancer.
- Order or interpret results of laboratory analyses of patients' blood or cerebrospinal fluid.
- Perform, order, or interpret the results of diagnostic or clinical tests.
- Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as complete blood counts (CBCs), electrocardiograms (EKGs), and radiographs (x-rays).
- Perform or interpret the outcomes of procedures or diagnostic tests, such as lumbar punctures, electroencephalography, electromyography, and nerve conduction velocity tests.
- Operate diagnostic equipment, such as radiographic or ultrasound equipment, and interpret the resulting images.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
- Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests and screening procedures based on assessment results, differential diagnoses, and knowledge about age, gender and health status of clients.
- Order and interpret the results of laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging procedures.