OBJECTIVE This study describes characteristics of psychiatry inpatients with developmental disabilities (DD) and their admissions to psychiatry wards in 2 acute care hospitals. It also compares differences in lengths of stay between admissions of this group with a comparison sample of inpatient admissions without DD. METHOD A retrospective chart review was conducted on all individuals with DD...

OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical effectiveness of ultrasound tailored treatment in patients with acute subacromial disorders. DESIGN Pragmatic randomised controlled trial. SETTING Dutch general practice. PARTICIPANTS Patients aged 18-65 years with acute (duration <3 months) unilateral shoulder pain and no previous treatment, in whom the general practitioner suspected a subacromial diso...

BACKGROUND A deeper engagement into medical decision-making is demanded by treatment guidelines for patients with affective disorders. There is to date little evidence on what facilitates active behaviour of patients with depression. In general medicine 'question prompt sheets' (QPSs) have been shown to change patients' behaviour in the consultation and improve treatment satisfaction but there ...

The definition of borderline personality disorder has evolved since it was first described more than 60 years ago. It currently is recognized as a disorder within the mood disorder spectrum, rather than a forme fruste of subschizophrenia or other psychotic disorders. The disease affects 1% to 2% of the general population, and there is extensive comorbidity with Axis I disorders. Recent evidence...

The paper presents a new dataset that captures the effect of mood on visual and auditory perception of music. With an online survey, we have collected a dataset of over 6600 responses capturing users’ mood, emotions evoked and expressed by music and the perception of color with regard to emotions and music. We describe the methodology of gathering the responses and present two new models for ca...

The knowledge of the clinical features of the mixed states and of the symptoms of the "mixity" of mood disorders is crucial: to mis-diagnose or mis-treat patients with these symptoms may increase the suicide risk and make worse the evolution of mood disorders. The rating scale "G.T. MSRS" has been designed to improve the clinical effectiveness of both psychiatrists and GPs by enabling them to m...

The rating scale "G.T. MSRS" has been designed to improve the clinical effectiveness of the clinician psychiatrists, by enabling them to make an early "general" diagnosis of mixed states. The knowledge of the clinical features of the mixed states and of the symptoms of the "mixity" of mood disorders is crucial: to mis-diagnose or mis-treat patients with these symptoms may increase the suicide r...

Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic-depressive disorder, consists of often recurrent and severe mood episodes. Roughly 1% of children are diagnosed with bipolar disorder; the prevalence doubles in adulthood. The intense mood swings and periods of depression contribute to the significant morbidity and mortality associated with this disorder, which ranks seventh among worldwide causes of no...

K.L.E.S. hospital is a new multispecialty referral hospital attached to J.N. Medical College, Belgaum. All psychiatric referrals numbering 338 over a period from 1.7.1996 to 30.6.1997 were retrospectively studied. Socio-demographic data, source and reason for referral, diagnosis and treatment advised were noted. More than two-third of the referrals were male patients and belonged to the product...