Duration of Treatment and Therapy Success in Inpatient Behaviour Therapy for Alcohol-Dependent PersonsAbstract:Background: Differential treatment durations in the inpatient treatment of alcohol-dependent persons ...
Communicating Prognosis and Expectations in Advanced Disease – A Balancing Act in PracticeAbstract. To prepare the end of life, to plan important things, to spend the remaining time of life not only with medical treatments, ...
Abstract. Uncertainty, fear to harm the patient, discomfort handling the discussion and lack of time are the most cited barriers to prognostic disclosure. Physicians can be reassured that patients desire the truth about ...
Epidemiology and course of personality disordersAbstract. Community studies conducted over the past decade have greatly increased our knowledge of the epidemiology of personality disorders. Here, we review the prevalence, ...
Follow-up Care of Patients after Heart AttackAbstract. Survivors of a myocardial infarction are at increased risk for future cardiac events, including recurrent infarction, heart failure, arrhythmia, stroke, and sudden cardiac death. The primary care ...
What happens to children and adolescents with mental disorders? Findings from long-term outcome researchResearch on the long-term outcome of mental disorders originating in childhood and adolescence is an important part of developmental psychopathology. ...
Neonatology is a form of general medicine which focuses on the beginning of life and lays its main emphasis on the conversion from intrauterine to extrauterine life. Over the last 50 years, the neonatal mortality in Switzerland dropped from 25 to 3 per ...
Acute exacerbation of COPD is one of the most common causes of hospital admission in patients affected with this disease. In most cases, consideration of differential diagnoses and assessment of important comorbidities will allow to make the decision ...
Greater body fatness was found to be a risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer (BC); furthermore this factor appears to be associated with poor prognosis. These findings were tested by analyzing 1459 patients whose cases were recorded in the Basler ...
In human medicine the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score is one of the most commonly organ dysfunction scoring systems used to assess critically ill patients and to predict the outcome in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). It is composed of scores ...
Historically, the presence of skin involvement results in the classification of a breast carcinoma into the highest tumor category, or accordingly into the highest non-metastatic disease stage (current TNM classification: T4/stage III). However, probably ...