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Severe mental illness registers
Nursing Standard, 2005The concept of creating severe mental illness registers is not entirely new to mental health services, although it has not been applied to any great extent in primary care. This article describes the process of setting up severe mental illness registers, which were implemented by Heartlands primary care trust (PCT) and disseminated to other PCTs in ...
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Resolution and Severity in Decompression Illness
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, 2009omegaWe review the terminology of decompression illness (DCI), investigations of residual symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS), and application of survival analysis for investigating DCI severity and resolution. The Type 1 and Type 2 DCS classifications were introduced in 1960 for compressed air workers and adapted for diving and altitude exposure ...
Richard D. Vann +5 more
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Severe illness with influenza B
The American Journal of Medicine, 1980Fifteen patients with recent influenza B infection were admitted to three Dallas hospitals in the first 11 weeks of 1977. The patients' ages ranged from five to 73 years, with a median of 18 years. Most had no significant underlying disease. The spectrum of clinical illness included postinfluenzal bacterial pneumonia (three cases), other severe chest ...
Stanley M. Martin +2 more
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Assessing the severity of depressive illness
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1992Twenty-five psychiatrists ranked a set of hypothetical patient scenarios, based on the three depression rating scales (Hamilton, Hospital Anxiety and Depression, and Montgomery Asberg), in terms of severity of illness. The results indicate some scope for comparing different condition-specific outcome measures.
K. M. Johnston, J. A. Cairns
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Severe mental illness in depression
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2006Objective: The study aimed to evaluate the outcome from in‐patient treatment in major depressive disorders (MDD) and its impact on the patients’ 1 year outcome under the present routine care conditions.Method: The reported data stem from a multicentric follow‐up study on the course and outcome of patients with MDD.
H.-J. Möller, Ronald Bottlender
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Overview of severe mental illness
Clinical Psychology Review, 1997The severe mental illnesses are psychiatric disorders characterized by their persistence and extensive disability. Classification of these disorders has seen improved reliability, but problems remain with validity. Etiological formulations emphasize the biological origins of the disorders, but psychological factors, chiefly in the area of stress, are ...
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Protein Catabolism and Requirements in Severe Illness
International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research, 2011Reduced total body protein mass is a marker of protein-energy malnutrition and has been associated with numerous complications. Severe illness is characterized by a loss of total body protein mass, mainly from the skeletal muscle. Studies on protein turnover describe an increased protein breakdown and, to a lesser extent, an increased whole-body ...
Genton Graf, Laurence, Pichard, Claude
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Managing physical illness in people with severe mental illness
Hospital Medicine, 2002People with severe mental illness have poor physical health, and increased morbidity and mortality compared to the general population. Community-based mental health care has led to hospital doctors being more involved in the physical care of psychiatric patients.
Ilyas Mirza, Michael Phelan
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1990
Scientific advance is dependent on the capacity to measure; and measurement requires the development of suitable instruments. Caring for the critically ill is an area of high-technology medicine where measurement forms an essential part of clinical management, and yet until recently there have been relatively few developments in measuring the single ...
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Scientific advance is dependent on the capacity to measure; and measurement requires the development of suitable instruments. Caring for the critically ill is an area of high-technology medicine where measurement forms an essential part of clinical management, and yet until recently there have been relatively few developments in measuring the single ...
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A review of the role of illness models in severe mental illness
Clinical Psychology Review, 2003The ways in which people think about illness experiences have been associated with a variety of important behaviours and emotional responses in patients, carers, and professionals. Some of these responses have been shown to be related to outcome. Explicit models such as the self-regulation model (SRM) [Leventhal, H., Nerenz, D. R., & Steele, D.
Steve Jones +2 more
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