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2018
Patients with advanced disease experience severe physical and psychological symptoms which are often underdiagnosed and often addressed only when severe and debilitating. Recent studies have shown that routine assessment of symptoms is significantly associated with improvement of quality of life and extending survival.
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Patients with advanced disease experience severe physical and psychological symptoms which are often underdiagnosed and often addressed only when severe and debilitating. Recent studies have shown that routine assessment of symptoms is significantly associated with improvement of quality of life and extending survival.
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Constipation: symptoms, assessment and treatment
British Journal of Nursing, 2011Chronic constipation is one of the most common lower gastrointestinal disorders affecting people in the western world (Muller-Lissner et al, 2005), with far reaching economic consequences. In 2009, the cost of prescribed laxatives was more than £60 million for primary care in England alone (NHS Business Services Authority, 2009), with many more ...
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Assessing Acute Stress Symptoms
2022Since the acute stress disorder (ASD) diagnosis was introduced in the fourth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), there has been considerable research on and clinical attention to the role of acute traumatic stress responses. This chapter commences with an overview of the history of ASD, including its rationale and
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Abstract Careful and thorough assessment of negative symptoms can help align treatments to proper targets. This chapter reviews clinical rating scales of negative symptoms, including older (yet still used) measures as well as current, next-generation measures.
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Reliability of symptom assessment in dyspepsia
European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 1997To examine the variation between doctors in their clinical assessment of dyspeptic symptoms.Simulated presentation of three dyspeptic symptom complexes to a total of 27 general practitioners, who each interviewed the 'patient' in accord with their own clinical practice A structured record form was used to record details of the history elicited ...
R C, Heading, E, Wager, P J, Tooley
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Functional Neurologic Symptoms: Assessment and Management
Neurologic Clinics, 2011Neurologic symptoms such as weakness or abnormal movements that are inconsistent and incongruent with neurologic disease can be described as functional, psychogenic, nonorganic, conversion, or dissociative symptoms. These symptoms often represent a clinical dilemma and a challenge for the clinician.
Jon, Stone, Alan, Carson
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Symptom Assessment and Management
2021Patients with the advanced stage of disease admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) present different symptoms that affect the quality of life and sometimes survival. Dyspnea, pain, thirst, mood disorders (especially delirium), nausea, and constipation are the main symptoms. These are discussed in detail throughout the chapter.
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Measurement and assessment of somatic symptoms
International Review of Psychiatry, 2013Somatic symptoms are common presentations in health settings. They can manifest as symptoms of another underlying mental disorder or be termed as medically unexplained. When they are medically unexplained they are invariably subsumed under the diagnostic categories of somatoform disorders.
Santosh K, Chaturvedi, Geetha, Desai
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Neuropsychiatric Symptom Assessments in Toxic Exposure
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2013The goal of this review is to provide guidelines for evaluating psychiatric and mood changes that result from neurotoxicity. Mood changes that are often seen to varying degrees in neurotoxicity include increased anxiety, depression, irritability, impulsiveness, and psychosis. Some common agents that induce neurotoxicity include drugs, heavy metals, and
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False Symptom Claims and Symptom Validity Assessment
2017False symptom claims and distorted symptom presentations are not at all rare in civil and criminal forensic cases where secondary gain is immanent. They reach from reported nonspecific memory and attention problems to intellectual disability, full-blown autobiographical memory loss, or crime-related amnesia.
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