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Severe mental illness and the perimenopause
Hormonal fluctuations in the perimenopause are associated with an array of physical and psychological symptoms. Those with pre-existing mental disorders may experience changes to their symptoms and response to treatment during the perimenopausal and postmenopausal periods and may also be at risk of poorer longer-term physical health outcomes in ...
Sophie Behrman, Clair Crockett
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Corticosteroid Therapy in Severe Illness [PDF]
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 ...
Hajo A. Bruining+2 more
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Severity of Illness Confusion [PDF]
To the Editor:I’d like to thank Drs. Tasker and Randolph (1) for a thoughtful and occasionally provocative commentary on the article published in a recent issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pollack et al (2).
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Water recreation and illness severity [PDF]
The health endpoint of prior studies of water recreation has been the occurrence of gastrointestinal (GI) illness. This dichotomous measure fails to take into account the range of symptom severity among those with GI illness, and those who develop GI symptoms but who do not satisfy the definition of GI illness. Data from two US cohort studies were used
Stephanie DeFlorio-Barker+3 more
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Severity of Illness Online [PDF]
The Societe Francaise d'Anesthesie et de Reanimation have provided an extremely useful online severity-of-illness calculator, for critically ill and preoperative patients. The site presents about 40 scoring systems in two groups, adult and pediatric, which are subdivided into general and specialized scores.
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Underinsurance for Severe Mental Illness [PDF]
Mental health care for the severely mentally ill in the United States is financed by a combination of public and private funds. Both public and private health insurance programs handle mental illness differently than they do other illnesses. This article documents uninsurance and underinsurance for severe mental illness in the United States based on ...
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Illness Severity and Treatment Services for Dually Diagnosed Severely Mentally Ill Outpatients [PDF]
This study of a frequently endorsed, but untested, model of outpatient treatment for persons with coexisting severe mental illness and substance use disorders assessed how the amount of treatment services delivered was related to an individual's global severity of illness, whether different modes of treatment were related to different aspects of ...
Katherine Anne Comtois, Richard K. Ries
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Severity of illness and the teaching hospital
In the current environment of cost containment pressures on health care providers, teaching hospitals are facing increased financial risks that could jeopardize their special role in the health care delivery system. One of these risks is that the Medicare prospective payment system does not adequately account for severity of illness.
D Kwo+4 more
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Physical health in severe mental illness [PDF]
The indivisible self has become divided. Divided by the structures of medical specialism, which themselves reflect the understanding of a wider society. Divided too by a mind and body philosophy that prefers reductionism to holism. More recently, divided by healthcare management struggling to address the issues of integrated care for patients who place
Ashworth, Mark+2 more
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Objective: To study the baseline cytokine levels and their relation with the severity of illness and mortality in critically ill children with severe sepsis. Design: Subgroup analysis of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Setting: Pediatric intensive care unit of a tertiary level teaching hospital in India.
Ritu Aggarwal+5 more
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