This cross-sectional study examines conformance to four of the Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) antipsychotic treatment recommendations, patient and treatment setting characteristics assocated with conformance, and the relationship of conformance with outcome. Two hundred twenty-four inpatients and 358 outpatients with schizophrenia underwent an interview and review of their ...

To ascertain the dimensions of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) in clinically depressed outpatients, exploratory factor analyses were performed with the BDI-II responses of 210 adult (> or =18 years) outpatients who were diagnosed with DSM-IV depressive disorders. Two factors representing Somatic-Affective and Cognitive dimensions were found whose compositio...

Tonsillectomy is the most common major surgical procedure performed on children in some countries. In a prospective study over 7 years we compared the incidence of complications in 313 inpatient and 113 outpatient tonsillectomy cases, in children from 3 to 15 years. The mean surgery time in outpatients was 23 min and discharge was 115–223 min after surgery. Complications occurred in 1.65% of in...

Thirty-one children aged less than 5 years were studied while attending hospital for anaesthesia as outpatients. Plasma glucose concentrations were measured after the induction of anaesthesia. The mean plasma glucose concentration was 4.70 mmol litre-1. No patients had a plasma glucose concentration less than 2.8 mmol litre-1, despite at least 8 h of starvation. This is unexplained. It is sugge...

introduction: although many researches showed that there are several psychiatric comorbidities in people suffering from migraine headache, few studies investigated the relationship between deep psychopathological structures and headache variables. the purpose of the present study was to elucidate the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and three dimensions of headache impact, pain in...

Introduction. The results of local studies indicated that medication adherence coronary outpatients is low (not more than 60 %). search for significant predictors to recommended treatment might allow tailoring specific strategies control further optimization the pharmacotherapy artery disease (CAD) in routine primary care practice. Aim. To determine factors associated with stable CAD. Methods. ...

In the determination of therapeutic 131I doses, it takes several days to measure effective half life (EHL) of radioiodine in thyroid glands (Ordinary method). We suggested the new method to estimate EHL by a single radioiodine uptake measurement (INDEX method). We evaluated the outcome of 131I treatment with these two methods in outpatients with Graves' disease. Eighty outpatients were treated ...

The causative organisms and susceptibility factors were compared in two groups of individuals with tinea pedis, coal miners (234) and dermatological outpatients (244). Trichophyton rubrum was the commonest dermatophyte in both groups, being isolated from 71% of infected miners and 77% of infected outpatients. The incidence of atopy in the outpatients, but not the miners, was significantly highe...

The prevalence of rotavirus diarrhea was compared in two settings, among children attending outpatient clinics and those hospitalized (inpatients) at Pune, India. A total of 489 and 628 fecal specimens were collected during October 1993 to September 1996 from outpatients and inpatients respectively. Overall occurrence of rotavirus diarrhea was more among hospitalized children. Using the stratif...