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Thomas Becker
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Depression in Parkinson’s disease: brainstem midline alteration on transcranial sonography and magnetic resonance imaging
Recent studies using transcranial sonography (TCS) have provided evidence of alterations in the mesencephalic midline structures in patients with unipolar depression and depression in Parkinson’s disease (PD)...
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Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma
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Needs for care of patients with schizophrenia and the consequences for their informal caregivers
Schizophrenia as a chronic mental disorder not only has far-reaching consequences for patients, but also for their family members or other informal caregivers. In this study, we investigated whether needs for ...
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Liver transplantation using organs from donors older than 60 years
At present, it is frequently accepted to expand the organ pool for liver transplantation (LTx) by including livers from critical donors. From 1990 to June 2002 a total of 1,208 LTx were performed. Of those, 67...
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Platelet P-selectin and GPIIb/IIIa expression after liver transplantation and resection
Platelet dysfunction contributes to haemostatic defects, possibly leading to bleeding complications. We hypothesised that liver transplantation and liver resection, together with portal clam** time, might be...
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Quality of life following living donor nephrectomy comparing classical flank incision and anterior vertical mini-incision
In this study we focused on the quality of life and satisfaction of living kidney donors comparing traditional lumbar (LDN) and mini-incision donor nephrectomy (MIDN). From May 1996 to December 2002, 174 donor...
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Mental health care in Germany
Germany turned towards community-based mental health care in the mid seventies, during a general climate of social and political reform. The continuing deinstitutionalisation process and the implementation of ...
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Open AccessNeeds-oriented discharge planning and monitoring for high utilisers of psychiatric services (NODPAM): Design and methods
Attempts to reduce high utilisation of psychiatric inpatient care by targeting the critical time of hospital discharge have been rare.
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Open AccessEuropean network for promoting the physical health of residents in psychiatric and social care facilities (HELPS): background, aims and methods
People with mental disorders have a higher prevalence of physical illnesses and reduced life expectancy as compared with the general population. However, there is a lack of knowledge across Europe concerning i...
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Working with mental health problems: clients’ experiences of IPS, vocational rehabilitation and employment
Although the effectiveness of individual placement and support (IPS) has been well established, little is known about clients’ perceptions of the model compared to usual vocational rehabilitation, nor about th...
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Open AccessClinical Decision Making and Outcome in Routine Care for People with Severe Mental Illness (CEDAR): Study protocol
A considerable amount of research has been conducted on clinical decision making (CDM) in short-term physical conditions. However, there is a lack of knowledge on CDM and its outcome in long-term illnesses, es...
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Open AccessThe cross-sectional GRAS sample: A comprehensive phenotypical data collection of schizophrenic patients
Schizophrenia is the collective term for an exclusively clinically diagnosed, heterogeneous group of mental disorders with still obscure biological roots. Based on the assumption that valuable information abou...
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Therapeutic relationships: their specificity in predicting outcomes for people with psychosis using clinical and vocational services
To determine the distinctions between the client–keyworker relationship and the client–vocational worker relationship by assessing their impact on clinical outcomes and exploring the associations between the two.
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The TOTS Community Intervention to Prevent Overweight in American Indian Toddlers Beginning at Birth: A Feasibility and Efficacy Study
Excess weight gain in American Indian/Alaskan native (AI/AN) children is a public health concern. This study tested (1) the feasibility of delivering community-wide interventions, alone or in combination with ...
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Preoperative risk evaluation of postoperative morbidity in IBD patients—impact of the POSSUM score
The aim of this study was to assess the morbidity and mortality of patients undergoing surgery for infIammatory bowel disease (IBD) with special focus of the predictive value of the Physiological and Operative...
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Incidence and outcome of abdominal surgical interventions following lung transplantation—a single center experience
Abdominal complications after lung transplantation (LuTx) are associated with a high mortality risk. Aim of the present study was to analyse frequency and outcome of abdominal interventions following LuTx.
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Value of the SOFA score as a predictive model for short-term survival in high-risk liver transplant recipients with a pre-transplant labMELD score ≥30
The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score has been applied for the prediction of survival in critically ill patients. We analysed the value of the SOFA score for the prediction of short-term surviva...
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Open AccessEvaluation of living liver donors using contrast enhanced multidetector CT – The radiologists impact on donor selection
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a valuable and legitimate treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease. Computed tomography (CT) has proven to be an important tool in the process of donor e...
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The relationships between employment, clinical status, and psychiatric hospitalisation in patients with schizophrenia receiving either IPS or a conventional vocational rehabilitation programme
Positive relationships between employment and clinical status have been found in several studies. However, an unequivocal interpretation of these relationships is difficult on the basis of common statistical m...
