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Original Source: The Hypomania Checklist-32 and the Mood Disorder Questionnaire as screening tools - going beyond samples of purely mood-disordered patients.
BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorders are often not recognized. Several screening tools have been developed, e.g., the Hypomania Checklist-32 (HCL-32) and the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) to improve this situation. Whereas the German HCL-32 has been used in non-clinical samples, neither the HCL-32 nor the MDQ has been validated in German samples of mood-disordered patients. Additionally, hardly any prior study has included patients with non-mood disorders or has considered potential effects of comorbid conditi...
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Adolescent hypomania does not predict bipolar disorder
Results from a Swedish study show that only a small proportion of depressed adolescents with hypomania spectrum episodes will develop bipolar disorder in adulthood.
MDD with subthreshold hypomania ‘should be merged with bipolar II’
Patients with major depressive disorder plus subthreshold hypomania exhibit significant differences in disease course, symptoms, treatment-seeking rates and other characteristics compared with those w...
Bipolar disorder questionnaires limited for patients with SUD
Researchers advise caution when using the Mood Disorder Questionnaire and the Hypomania Checklist-32 to diagnose bipolar disorder in patients treated for substance use disorders.
A Different Kind of Checklist for Hospitals
A group of top health-care providers is offering a checklist of ten strategies for tackling the broad issue of delivering improved care at reduced cost.
A Checklist for Cerebral Aneurysm Embolization Complications
Even the most experienced physician may encounter unforeseen complications during neuroendovascular procedures. This review presents a role-based checklist to facilitate an improved team response. J...
Conventus Offers Five-point Checklist & Analysis for Good Medical Liability Insurance
Woodbridge, NJ (PRWEB) April 19, 2013 âFor most New Jersey physicians, distinguishing between good and average medical liability coverage can seem like a matter of guesswork. Conventus has cre...
Over 50? Checklist may predict if you'll be alive in 10 years
(HealthDay)—A simple checklist could help doctors estimate whether an older patient will be alive 10 years from now, according to a new study.
Computerized Checklist Offers Best Preventive Strategy For Deadly Blood Clots
A computerized checklist system designed to help physicians identify and use the best methods of preventing potentially deadly blood clots in hospitalized trauma patients dramatically reduced the numb...
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Brief hypomania lasting less than 4 days may impair functioning and help to detect bipolarity. This study analyzed brief hypomania that occurred in patients with bipolar disorder who were diagnosed a...
Objective. The sensitivity and specificity of the Chinese versions of the Hypomania Symptom Checklist-32 (HCL-32) and Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) for detecting bipolar disorder in Taiwan were ex...
BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorders are often not recognized. Several screening tools have been developed, e.g., the Hypomania Checklist-32 (HCL-32) and the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) to improve this...
Patient Safety in Interventional Radiology: A CIRSE IR Checklist.
Interventional radiology (IR) is an invasive speciality with the potential for complications as with other invasive specialities. The World Health Organization (WHO) produced a surgical safety checkli...
Use of the WHO surgical safety checklist in trauma and orthopaedic patients.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends routine use of a surgical safety checklist prior to all surgical operations. The aim of this study was to prospectively audit checklist use in orthopaedi...
