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Clinical Articles / BY: Theresa Isomura, MD, FRCPC October 2002
... [1]  and the prevalence of psychiatric disorder is 25%. [2,3]  Yet fewer than 5% of patients with identified ... (Dr T. Isomura) visited each clinic for a half-day every 2 weeks to do consultations, brief follow-ups, and referral ... adjustment disorder (n = 7, 5%), and substance abuse (n = 2, 2%). Two first-episode psychotic patients were identified ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Ellen Anderson, MD October 2002
... Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD) [2]  can provide us with a highly sensitive (94%) but not ... bothered by little interest or pleasure in doing things? 2. Have you been feeling down, depressed, or hopeless in the ... values for diagnosis of major depression ( Table 2 ). If a clinician is concerned about cognitive impairment, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erin E. Michalak, PhD October 2002
... at levels recommended by clinical practice guidelines. [2]  Furthermore, fewer than 10% of depressed patients seen ... patients with acute MDD will not recover in the first 2 years of their depressive episode8 and 12% of these will ... programs tend to have several key components (see  Table 2 ), one of the most important being the implementation of ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD October 2002
... the younger member of the duo. In other words, based on my 2-second visual assessment, my assumption was that the two ...
Editorials / BY: Raymond W. Lam, MD, FRCPC October 2002
... projected to be the second leading cause by 2020. [1,2] The good news is that depression is a highly treatable ... the last two articles (Treatment--Part 1, Treatment--Part 2) summarize the recent Canadian clinical guidelines for ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) October 2002
... Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine  published, 2 years ago, a paper entitled “A randomized controlled ...
Letters / BY: Peter Rees, PhD, FRCPC October 2002
... results are obtained in depression and chronic pain, [1,2]   one or both of which are customary in chronic whiplash. ...
Letters / BY: Michael Livingston, MD October 2002
... vary so much worldwide and why is it so high here in BC? [2] Around 1992, I noticed that whiplash injury was described ...
Letters / BY: Allan C.P. Lam, MD October 2002
... the  Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain  Volume 9, November 2, 2001. In this study, 79% of the patients treated improved. ... (average 128 weeks). All the patients belong to Grade 2 or 3 except for one Grade 4 according to the Quebec Task ...
Premise / BY: Murray Allen, MD October 2002
... insurance companies limit the maximum of loss they cover. [2,3] The public providers of insurance against whiplash ...