BACKGROUND Classification of patients with pharmaceutical opioid use disorder and dependence varies depending on which definition is used. We compared how WHO's ICD-10 and proposed ICD-11 and the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV and DSM-5 classified individuals in a community-based sample of Australians with chronic non-cancer pain for which opioids have been prescribed. METHODS We s...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have shown that adherence to published clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) reduces disease morbidity and mortality. However, few benchmarks exist that demonstrate the rate of adherence to CPGs in patients in long-term-care facilities (LTCFs). OBJECTIVE To evaluate CPG adherence in patients in LTCFs who received consultation from pharmacists who emphasize disease st...

The Psychosis Work Group, of which the authors are members, will complete work in 2012. Final recommendations must be reviewed and approved in order for full text to go to publisher by January 1, 2013.Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) will appear in print in May, 2013. Much remains to be done including completion of field trials, analysis of data, revi...

OBJECTIVE To elucidate the consequences of broadening DSM-IV criteria for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), we examined prospectively the evolution of GAD symptoms in two groups of patients; one group diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria and the other, according to broader criteria. METHOD Multicentre, prospective and observational study conducted on outpatient psychiatric clinics. Patien...

Most DSM research in current years have ignored the impact of interconnection network altogether. Similarly, most of the interconnec-tion network research have focused on better network designs by using synthetic (uniform/non-uniform) traac. Both these trends do not lead to any concrete guidelines about designing better networks for the emerging Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) paradigm. In this...

Although it’s been more than a year since the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) has been published, articles regarding the new criteria have been appearing since 2011. This is because, any revisions of the DSM-IV criteria for PTSD (whether removal, addition or modification of specific symptoms) had to be supported by strong e...

Systems engineering of products, processes, and organizations requires tools and techniques for system decomposition and integration. A design structure matrix (DSM) provides a simple, compact, and visual representation of a complex system that supports innovative solutions to decomposition and integration problems. The advantages of DSMs vis-à-vis alternative system representation and analysis...