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- Title
Technical note: The use and misuse of threshold diagnostic criteria in paleopathology.
- Authors
Vlok, Melandri
- Abstract
Weighted threshold diagnostic criteria approaches have emerged for diseases that involve skeletal/bony tissue that are readily diagnosed in the field of paleopathology such as Vitamin C deficiency (scurvy), Vitamin D deficiency (rickets) and treponemal disease. These criteria differ from traditional differential diagnosis in that they involve standardized inclusion criteria based on the lesion's specificity to the disease. Here I discuss the limitations and benefits of threshold criteria. I argue that while these criteria will benefit from further revision such as inclusion of lesion severity, and the incorporation of exclusion criteria, threshold diagnostic approaches have considerable value in the future of diagnosis in the field.
- Subjects
VITAMIN C deficiency; PALEOPATHOLOGY; VITAMIN D deficiency; RICKETS; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis
- Publication
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2023, Vol 181, Issue 2, p326
- ISSN
2692-7691
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ajpa.24721