Background The UK Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) rewards practices for measuring
symptom severity in patients with depression, but the endorsed scales have not been …

It is widely believed that severity of depressive disorder should guide treatment selection
and many guidelines emphasise this factor. The Quick Inventory of Depressive …

Background: The 2004 NICE Guidelines and the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)
of the new General Medical Services (nGMS) emphasise the importance of measuring the …

Fig. 1. Phylogenetic tree based on HIV-1 polymerase sequences from the source and index
patients. Partial polymerase gene tree estimated by the neighbor-joining method with a …

SOURCE productivity plays a~ vital role in today's world prob-IX.. lems. International productivity
differentials have, of course, always been of prime concern to economists; assumptions …

This thesis is concerned with the Mesozoic geological history of the Agulhas Bank on the
continental shelf off the south coast of South Africa. It incorporates the results of oil exploration …

Emotion focused coping strategies, such as denial and escape-avoidance techniques, might
have short-term benefits for patients with chronic illnesses (including those with Human …

Kinnair et al1 raise some important points regarding training and teaching students on
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Some of the questions used, particularly in assessing students’ …

AUTHOR’S PROOF 196 Page 1 and how they should be working and, instead of introducing
flexibility, enforce rigidity. They lose person-centred holistic care by replacing skilled …

Somalia is located within the horn of Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden south of the Arabian
Peninsula, adjacent to the northwestern Indian Ocean, east of Ethiopia, and forms part of the …