3. Associated Symptom and Supportive Therapy.

Supportive-Expressive Therapy

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An important issue in the use of expert systems is the so-called brittleness problem. Expert systems model only a limited part of the world. While the explicit management of uncertainty in expert systems mitigates the brittleness problem, it is still possible for a system to be used, unwittingly, in ways that the system is not prepared to address. Such situation may be detected by the method of...

Symptom clustering among patients visiting a supportive oncology clinic.

188 Background: Multiple symptoms are common and often severe in patients with cancer. Identification of symptoms which cluster may serve to elucidate the pathophysiology of the disease and aid in symptom management. Our aim was to define symptom clusters occurring among cancer outpatients receiving chemotherapy. METHODS New and returning patients referred to a supportive oncology clinic (SOC...

Supportive Therapy for Schizophrenic Disorders

Zusammenfassung Nach der empirischen Absicherung der Wirksamkeit Kognitiver Verhaltenstherapie (KVT) bei schizophrenen Psychosen stellt sich zunehmend die Frage nach den Wirkmechanismen. In diesem Zusammenhang spielt die supportive Therapie (ST) eine bedeutsame Rolle als unspezifische Kontrollbedingung. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt den derzeitigen Stand der Forschung zur ST bei schizophrenen S...

Supportive therapy in medical therapy of head and neck tumors

Fever during neutropenia may be a symptom of severe life threatening infection, which must be treated immediately with antibiotics. If signs of infection persist, therapy must be modified. Diagnostic measures should not delay treatment. If the risk of febrile neutropenia after chemotherapy is ≥ 20%, then prophylactic therapy with G-CSF is standard of care. After protocols with a risk of febrile...