Background and Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze recovery of motor function in a cohort of patients presenting with an acute occlusion in the carotid distribution. Analysis of recovery patterns is important for estimating patient care needs, establishing therapeutic plans, and estimating sample sizes for clinical intervention trials. Methods: We prospectively measured the motor ...

Background „ „ A name game For non-native English speakers it is often difficult to correctly translate ‘disease outcome’ to their own languages. Among frequently used substitutions, terms such as ‘disease course’, ‘prognosis’ or ‘response to treatment’ are used in the context of a description of disease outcome, although their meaning only partly captures that of an ‘outcome’. This linguistic ...

drug abuse in pregnancy is not uncommon, and the use of illicit opioids during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes. the aim of the study was to assess neonatal outcome of pregnancy with maternal addiction. materials and methods:   in this cohort study we assessed 100 pregnant women 15 -49 years old. to identify drug exposure was used self- questionnaire (self-repo...

It is an exciting time to conduct alcoholism treat­ ment outcome evaluation. Advancements in statis­ tical software for personal computers, for example, have dramatically increased the type and complexity of techniques available to the evalua­ tor. Although some concern has been raised about how the democratization of the tools of evaluation may precipitate their inappropriate use (e.g., Pedhaz...

J Clin Psychiatry 69:5, May 2008 831 PSYCHIATRIST.COM n this issue of Focus on Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health, we include 4 articles describing studies examining assessment of or risk factors for developing mood disorders in youth. A series of 2 articles, by Youngstrom and colleagues and Meyers and Youngstrom, describes the utility of the General Behavior Inventory (GBI) as a screening ...

We investigated the epidemiology, assessment and outcome of acute atraumatic limp in 243 children under the age of 14 years presenting to a paediatric accident and emergency department (AED) over a period of six months. Data were collected at presentation and medical notes were re-examined after 18 to 21 months. The incidence of limp was 1.8 per thousand. The male:female ratio was 1.7:1 and the...

The purpose of a clinical trial is usually to assess whether and to what extent a treatment improves outcome and to identify the type and frequency of any associated risks. The question that is posed here refers only to acute trials, in which enrollment occurs within hours after stroke onset and treatment is exhibited and probably completed within at most a few days. We can reasonably assume th...

Measuring and interpreting outcome is more difficult in mental health services than in some other areas of health care, for at least five reasons. First, the effect of the treatment may be to slow decline or to maintain the current level, so the score on the outcome measure itself may not improve (or may even get worse) despite best quality clinical care. Secondly, the best available evidence i...

Early diagnosis and severity evaluation in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) are very important due to its potential morbidity and mortality. Several clinical, laboratory, and radiologic factors, and many scoring systems have been proposed for outcome prediction. Although the Ranson and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II scoring systems have been widely used for decades, the ...