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Impact of treatment intervention on the relationship between dimensions of clinical psychopathology, social dysfunction and burden on the family of psychiatric patients.

The interdependence of the three areas of patient improvement assessments used in a comparative study has been studied. The three dimensions are clinical psychopathology, social dysfunction and burden on family. A high correlation has been found between these dimensions. The differential effect of two modalities of treatment delivery on the interdependence of these three dimensions is discussed.

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The burden on the family of a psychiatric patient: development of an interview schedule.

This paper describes the construction of a semi-structured interview schedule to assess the burden placed on families of psychiatric patients living in the community. The Indian population studied found their sick relatives most burdensome in respect of the effect of the illness on family finances, the disruption of normal family activities and the production of stress symptoms in family members other than the patient. The inter-investigator reliability of the interview schedule proved to be high.

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Effect of tolazoline on persistent hypoxemia in neonatal respiratory distress.

Twenty-seven infants with respiratory distress and hypoxemia of noncardiac etiology were treated with tolazoline. Thirteen infants had hyaline membrane disease and 14 had respiratory distress attributable to causes other than hyaline membrane disease. An immediate response to tolazoline, a rise in PaO2 of 15 torr or more within 15 min, was seen in 11 infants in the hyaline membrane disease group and in eight infants of the other group. Six infants in the hyaline membrane disease group and 11 infants in the second group survived. Tolazoline should be considered as a therapeutic adjunct in the management of hypoxemia which persists after optimal homeostatic and ventilatory support.

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Semianalytical expressions for (L/rho)(air)med and P(repl) for electron beams.

The tables of the mean restricted collision mass stopping power ratios for water, polystyrene and acrylic relative to air given in the AAPM TG-21 protocol have been fitted to an expression with 20 coefficients using the depth in the phantom and the mean incident electron energy as two independent variables. Using these expressions, the calculated values agree with the tabulated values within +0.5% in 85% of the cases and within +/- 1.0% in 95% of the cases. For each of the four cylindrical chamber inner diameters, given in the protocol, the electron fluence correction Prepl has been fitted to an expression with four coefficients using the mean electron energy at depth z as an independent variable.

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