Early diagnosis can be life-saving in acute pulmonary embolism (PE). It is unknown, whether patients with recurrent PE are diagnosed earlier than those with their first episode.Admission data of patients with symptomatic acute PE were reviewed over a period of 47 months. Delay in diagnosis, dem...
As this was thought to be partly due to delays in the referral of patients to clinical oncologists, a prospective study was performed to determine the interval between first report of symptoms and first radiotherapy treatment in patients with NSCLC. METHODS: The time course from first symptom to...
However, few prospective studies have documented the sequence with which symptoms occur during cancer care.This longitudinal study explored the temporal relationships between anxiety, depression, insomnia, fatigue, and pain over an 18-month period in a large population-based sample of nonmetastatic ...
We have nine people and everybody is a special character. The band members are all really good musicians. We are like family; we spend more time together than our own blood family. We’ve developed healthy relationships. We party all the time. We are always joking, just having fun and f...
The results support the assumption that parenthood is a complicated period for first-time mothers characterised by low confidence, symptoms of depression and high stress which improve over time for the majority of mothers. The KPCS at 2 months postpartum was the strongest predictor of the measures...
Most descriptive studies of the psychopathology of schizophrenia have focused on the period following illness onset. Little attention has been paid to the assessment of psychopathology before onset of psychotic symptoms. In this study, 71 first-hospitalization patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizo...
The Hung Postpartum Stress Scale was used to examine first-time mothers' postpartum stress and stressors during their postpartum periods. The top ten postpartum stressors perceived by the women were: “the baby getting sick suddenly”, “the flabby flesh of my belly”, “the unpredictability ...
between psychiatrists and patients’ daily functioning and symptom severity in the first year after remission from an FEP, which is expected to relate to the frequency of psychiatrist-patient contacts, to antipsychotic prescription behaviour, and to baseline symptom severity of patient’s symptoms. In...
Lag phase, the time period during which bacteria do not divide after being transferred to a new environment, could in principle affect the temporal variation of a growing population31,32,33. However, we expect lag phase did not significantly impact our experiments: in our setup, bacteria in lo...
Adolescence is a pivotal and critical period of the life span; it is marked by the onset of puberty and characterized by the development of identity and emotions [2]. Adolescents become physically and sexually mature and may need time to accept these changes. Besides those internal changes, ...