List of questionable diagnostic tests

This is a list of medical diagnostic tests that are considered questionable, unverified or refuted.[1]

• Applied kinesiology,[2] including the Bi-Digital O Ring Test[3]
• Barnes Basal Temperature Test
• Breast thermography[4]
• Genetic tests for "reward deficiency syndrome"[5]
• Electro Physiological Feedback Xrroid (EPFX)[6]
• E-meter
• Hair analysis[7][8]
• Live blood analysis[9]
• Pendulum dowsing
• Provoked urine testing for heavy metal toxicity[10]
• Proove Opioid Risk test (POR)
• Radionics

See also

• List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
• Quackery
• List of diagnoses characterized as pseudoscience

References

1. Barrett, Stephen (6 May 2018). "Dubious diagnostic tests". QuackWatch. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
2. Bernstein IL, Li JT, Bernstein DI, Hamilton R, Spector SL, Tan R, et al. (2008). "Allergy diagnostic testing: an updated practice parameter". Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 100 (3 Suppl 3): S1-148. doi:10.1016/S1081-1206(10)60305-5. PMID 18431959.
3. Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand findings in re Richard Gorringe and the PMRT/Bi-Digital O-Ring Test
4. "ASA Adjudication on Medical Thermal Imaging Ltd". Advertising Standards Authority. 2013-01-09. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
5. Barrett, Stephen; Hall, Harriet (24 November 2008). "Dubious Genetic Testing". Retrieved 5 July 2018.
6. Barrett, Stephen (12 July 2009). "Some Notes on the Quantum Xrroid (QXCI) and William C. Nelson". Quackwatch. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
7. Seidel, S. (2001). "Assessment of Commercial Laboratories Performing Hair Mineral Analysis". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 285: 67–72. doi:10.1001/jama.285.1.67. PMID 11150111.
8. "Hair Analysis: What Can Your Hair Tell About You?".
9. "CLIA regulation of unestablished laboratory tests" (PDF). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. July 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 28, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
10. Barrett, Stephen (10 June 2017). "How the "Urine Toxic Metals" Test Is Used to Defraud Patients". QuackWatch. Retrieved 5 July 2018.