Time to let the patient speak.

Time to let the patient speak.

"Listen to the complaint of the patient, however tiresome or irrelevant that may seem. He will eventually tell you what is the matter with him.... It is usually better in terms ofboth care and time to allow the flow to come to a natural halt from exhaustion of either the speaker or the material." The first half of this advice (from an experienced advocate and judge in medicolegal cases and a he...

Let the data speak: a response to Terracciano (2014).

It's time to let the 'CAT' out...patient!.

conditions in daily clinical practice, thus removing the existing gap between the world of research and the field of real life. The COPD Assessment Test (CAT), which has been developed in recent years [5, 6] , is an 8-item questionnaire designed to assess and quantify the impact of COPD symptoms on health status. The items used to create the CAT were generated in a qualitative study based on in...

Characterising acute coronary syndrome-associated depression: Let the data speak.

Depression in the context of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is understood to confer increased morbidity and mortality risk. The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying this association remain poorly understood, although several candidates including inflammation, cardiac autonomic dysregulation, and behavioural factors are viewed as of key importance. No single bio-behavioural explanatory model ...

Let the Shape Speak - Discriminative Face Alignment using Conjugate Priors

This work presents a novel Bayesian formulation for aligning faces in unseen images. Our approach is closely related to Constrained Local Models (CLM) [2] and Active Shape Models (ASM) [6], where an ensemble of local feature detectors are constrained to lie within the subspace spanned by a Point Distribution Model (PDM). Fitting a model to an image typically involves two steps: a local search u...