In order to develop standardized measures to assess patients' relative priority for services for which there are waiting lists, it is essential that key terms be clearly defined. We propose that severity be defined as the degree or extent of suffering, limits to activities or risk of death; that urgency be defined as severity combined with considerations of the expected benefit and the natural ...

Abstract Purpose of Review Here, we systematically review all available evidence on the triadic relationship between positive and negative urgency, craving, severity symptoms candidate behavioral addictions. Recent Findings Current theoretical models attribute a central importance to craving in chronification prognosis addictions other problematic non-substance-related patterns. Craving, turn, ...

We realize four-dimensional N = 2 superconformal quiver gauge theories with alternating SO and USp gauge groups as compactifications of the six-dimensional DN theory with defects. The construction can be used to analyze infinitely stronglycoupled limits and S-dualities of such gauge theories, resulting in a new class of isolated four-dimensional N = 2 superconformal field theories with SO(2N) f...

Review methods MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, SCIRUS, Google Scholar, US Food and Drug Administration reviews, and clinical trial registries were searched for English-language, randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) and individual patient data (IPD) analyses. 94 studies met selection criteria; 8 were IPD analyses. Risk for bias was low: 73% studies adequately described randomization, 23% had clear al...