Abstract Background Consent to treatment is a cornerstone of medical ethics and law. Nevertheless, very little empirical evidence available inform clinicians policymakers regarding the capacities forensic patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) make decisions about their treatment, risk clinical legal inertia, silent coercion, stigmatization, or ill-conceived reforms. Study Design...

INTRODUCTION Recent research on the association between delusions and violence has suggested complex and differing pathways. Furthermore, it has been emphasized that temporal proximity is fundamental when investigating these relationships. We reanalyzed data from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study utilizing a different methodological approach to investigate associations between specif...

Multidimensional computer adaptive testing (MCAT) can provide higher precision and reliability or reduce test length when compared with unidimensional CAT or with the paper-and-pencil test. This study compared five item selection procedures in the MCAT framework for both domain scores and overall scores through simulation by varying the structure of item pools, the population distribution of th...

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......................................... Received: 07-09-10 Accepted: 15-09-10 Abstract The editors of this review have taken this opportunity to present a clinical case history of an obese young adult female patient who was found to have an 18mm in diameter pancreatic cyst. Prior to performance of bariatric surgery a CAT scan was performed which revealed the existence of the cyst. This case i...

We investigate the Tits boundary of locally compact CAT (0) 2-complexes. In particular we show that away from the endpoints, a geodesic segment in the Tits boundary is the ideal boundary of an isometrically embedded Euclidean sector. As applications, we provide sufficient conditions for two points in the Tits boundary to be the endpoints of a geodesic in the 2-complex and for a group generated ...

Voting by persons with dementia raises questions about their decision-making capacity. Methods specifically addressing voting capacity of demented people have been proposed in the US, but never tested elsewhere. We translated and adapted the US Competence Assessment Tool for Voting (CAT-V) to the Italian context, using it before 2006 elections for Prime Minister. Consisting of a brief questionn...

February 2011 • Volume 15, Number 1 • Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing Cynthia Lockhart, MEd, CAT, CMT, is a healing arts coordinator in oncology and Angie Anania, BA, is the director of Public Relations and Media, both at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver, CO. The authors take full responsibility for the content of the article. The authors did not receive honoraria for this ...

This study compared situation awareness across three flight deck decision aiding modes. Pilots resolved air traffic conflicts using a click and drag software tool. In the automated aiding condition, pilots executed all resolutions generated by the automation. In the interactive condition, automation suggested a maneuver, but pilots had the choice of accepting or modifying the provided resolutio...

AIMS To provide an overview of alcoholics attending a socio-ecological treatment programme [Clubs of Alcoholics in Treatment (CATs)] and to identify factors associated with abstinence and self-perceived improvement in lifestyle. METHODS A national sample of 7522 subjects (76% males and 24% females, mean age 53.2 ± 11.3 years ± SD) attending CATs was evaluated using a self-administered questio...