PERSON-CENTERED CARE IN PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE

Person-centered care in psychiatric practice

Advances in modern medicine are Grapefruit Seed making the vision of personalised medicine within reach.Psychiatry is the leader in the practice of psychobiosocial medicine and should be leading the charge for delivering person-centred care.Engaging patients as equal partners in clinical decision making is House compelling ethically but also makes

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A disrupted FOXP3 transcriptional signature underpins systemic regulatory T cell insufficiency in early pregnancy failure

Summary: Regulatory T (Treg) cell defects are implicated in disorders of embryo implantation and placental development, but the origins of Treg cell dysfunction are unknown.Here, we comprehensively analyzed the phenotypes and transcriptional profile of peripheral blood Treg cells in individuals with early pregnancy failure (EPF).Compared to fertile

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Cardiac Index by Transthoracic Echocardiography (CITE) study.

AimsLeft ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is the most frequently used parameter in the assessment of heart failure (HF).Cardiac index (CI) is considered a potential alternative to LVEF despite limited evidence.We aimed to assess and compare the predictive accuracy of LVEF and echocardiographically-assessed CI in HF patients.Methods and resultsA

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Venocentric lesions: an MRI marker of MS?

From the earliest descriptions of MS, the venocentric characteristic of plaques was noted.Recently, numerous MRI studies have proposed this finding as a prospective biomarker for MS, which might aid in differentiating MS from other diseases with similar MRI findings.High field MRI studies have shown that penetrating veins can be detected in most MS

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