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A scale for assessing the severity of diseases and adverse drug reactions: Application to drug benefit and risk [PDF]

, 1979
Physicians were interviewed to assess their willingness to risk adverse drug reactions among patients. These untoward reactions were ranked according to severity and weighted against the primary illness being treated. A specially designed questionnaire
Eiben, Carl, Murray, Rodney B., Tallarida, Ronald J.   +2 more
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Cognitive flexibility and DSM-5 severity criteria for eating disorders: assessing drive for thinness and duration of illness as alternative severity variables

Journal of Eating Disorders, 2023
Background The severity criteria for eating disorders (EDs) proposed in the DSM-5 have been established without sufficient empirical support. Drive for thinness (DT) and duration of illness have been proposed as two alternative severity measures, however
Bernat Mora-Maltas, Ignacio Lucas, Roser Granero, Cristina Vintró-Alcaraz, Romina Miranda-Olivos, Isabel Baenas, Isabel Sánchez, Jessica Jiménez-del Toro, Jéssica Sánchez-González, Isabel Krug, Javier Tapia, Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Fernando Fernández-Aranda   +12 more
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Comparison of Severity of Illness Scores and Artificial Intelligence Models That Are Predictive of Intensive Care Unit Mortality: Meta-analysis and Review of the Literature

JMIR Medical Informatics, 2022
BackgroundSeverity of illness scores—Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation, Simplified Acute Physiology Score, and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment—are current risk stratification and mortality prediction tools used in
Cristina Barboi, Andreas Tzavelis, Lutfiyya NaQiyba Muhammad   +2 more
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Corticosteroid Therapy in Severe Illness [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 1997
Severe illnesses, trauma, anesthesia, and surgery are accompanied by activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, as demonstrated by increased serum corticotropin and cortisol concentrations.1–7 This activation is an essential component of the general adaptation to stress and contributes to the maintenance of homeostasis.8 The efficacy of ...
Lamberts, S.W.J., Bruining, HA, Jong, Frank   +2 more
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The relationship among the health-related quality of life, illness severity, personality and psychiatric symptoms in patients with psoriasis: an empirical investigation [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Psoriasis is a complex and chronic inflammatory skin disorder. The mechanisms underlying this immune-mediated disease are not clear, but some evidence indicates that specific personality features and symptom patterns may play an important ...
Annalisa Tanzilli, Denise Erbuto, Elena Rogante, Maurizio Pompili, Salvatore Sarubbi, Severino Persechino, Tommaso Boldrini, Vittorio Lingiardi   +7 more
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Do flexible goal adjustment and acceptance help preserve quality of life in patients with Multiple Sclerosis? [PDF]

, 2015
Background Goal regulation strategies such as flexible goal adjustment and acceptance are believed to be protective factors in persons with chronic illness, but research on their relative contributions to quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS) is ...
De Waegeneer, Annelies, Debruyne, Jan, Van Damme, Stefaan   +2 more
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Comparison of the groups treated with mirtazapine and selective serotonine reuptake inhibitors with respect to birth outcomes and severity of psychiatric disorder

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2019
Objective: The literature provides very limited information on mirtazapine usage in the pregnancy period. The groups including pregnant women who used SSRI or mirtazapine as a single treatment, SSRI–mirtazapine combination treatment and unmedicated ...
Buket Belkız Güngör, Nalan Öztürk, Ayça Öngel Atar, Nazan Aydın   +3 more
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Recovery from severe mental illness [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2015
The concept of mental health “recovery” is based on evidence that people with severe mental illnesses can live autonomous, contributing and satisfying lives in the community, even in the presence of persisting symptoms.
Rob, Whitley, Victoria, Palmer, Jane, Gunn   +2 more
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Severity of Sleep Apnea and COVID-19 Illness

OTO Open, 2021
Objective To characterize the relationship between severity of sleep apnea and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalization and severe illness. Study Design Retrospective cohort study.
Meryl B. Kravitz, Elizabeth Yakubova, Nick Yu, Steven Y. Park MD   +3 more
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An Easy-to-Use Prehospital Indicator to Determine the Severity of Suspected Heat-Related Illness: An Observational Study in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Diagnostics, 2023
Rapid hospital arrival decreases mortality risk in heat-related illnesses. We investigated an easy-to-use indicator of life-threatening severity of heat-related illnesses in a community setting to enable quick hospitalization by using data extracted from
Junko Yamaguchi, Kosaku Kinoshita, Minami Takeyama   +2 more
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