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Frailty index to measure health status in people with systemic sclerosis.
J Rheumatol
April 2014
From Geriatric Medicine Research; Division of Rheumatology; Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University and Capital District Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, McGill University and SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Objective: To develop and validate, as a measure of overall health status, a Frailty Index (FI) for patients (n=1372) in the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group (CSRG) Registry.
Methods: Forty-four items were selected from the CSRG database as health deficits and recoded using FI criteria. To test construct validity, we compared measurement properties of the CSRG-FI to other FI, and related it to measures of damage, age, and time since diagnosis.
A commentary on mumpsimus, sumpsimus and the mpemba effect.
Am J Clin Hypn
October 2007
Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, McGill University and SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec.
Intermittent psychotherapy: an alternative to continuous long-term treatment for patients with personality disorders.
J Psychiatr Pract
May 2007
McGill University and SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E4, Canada.
Open-ended psychotherapies have a limited evidence base for the treatment of personality disorders. In patients with personality disorders, in whom pathology tends to remit with time, intermittent rather than continuous therapy could be an option. Patients might be treated more briefly and then either allowed or encouraged to take breaks, while being allowed to return as new issues arise.
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