BRITAIN: Discomfiting prognoses

Progressive language impairments: definitions, diagnoses, and prognoses

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IS MIDDLE BRITAIN MIDDLE - INCOME BRITAIN ? Matthew Wakefield

Commentary: prognoses should be based on proved indices not intuition.

Integrative Analysis using Coupled Latent Variable Models for Individualizing Prognoses

Complex chronic diseases (e.g., autism, lupus, and Parkinson’s) are remarkably heterogeneous across individuals. This heterogeneity makes treatment difficult for caregivers because they cannot accurately predict the way in which the disease will progress in order to guide treatment decisions. Therefore, tools that help to predict the trajectory of these complex chronic diseases can help to impr...

Prognoses for diagnoses: medical search online and “cyberchondria”

Introduction The Internet is a source of valuable medical information, however the Web has the potential to increase anxieties of people with no medical training when employed as a diagnostic procedure (White & Horvitz, 2009). Anxiety induced as a result of health related search online is an increasingly differentiated activity (Fox et al., 2000; Feldman, 2000; Lewis, 2006; Belling, 2006; Ravdi...