This case, and other similar, if less extreme examples of illness and disability, have prompted Ms. Tilley and Dr. Oxenham to ask what the dimensions of such a story are, what care for the sick and injured says about the culture that provided it.
Methods that assist decision making or provide examples of illness experiences, e.g. DIPEX may be useful solutions.
A leading investigator within this field, Goldberger [ 142] proposed that increased regularity of signals represents a 'decomplexification' of illness, citing numerous examples of illness states with increased regularity of rhythms.
This is an expected finding, given the diversity of geographic locations (for example, health systems, available resources), institutions (for example, procedures for discharge and post-ICU care), providers (for example, discharge practices) and patient populations (for example, severity of illness, patient and family care preferences) in the included studies.
GV depends on endogenous factors (for example, severity of illness) but also on exogenous factors (for example, inappropriate glucose measurement intervals and improper insulin adjustments).
Exceptions to this are models used in studies of psychological factors, for example the self-regulatory model of illness [ 18], and Bandura's model of self-efficacy [ 19].
When considering the whole cohort of patients with a normal first postdischarge oral glucose tolerance test (the eligible cohort), what was the predictive role for traditional predictors of diabetes mellitus and prediabetes mellitus (DM/pre-DM) (for example, age, family history, body mass index) and for inhospital variables (for example, severity of illness)?
Reports usually did not adopt standard clinical record headings of, for example, history of illness, past history, family history, development, mental state, etc. Rather, they were usually structured around psychiatrically relevant observations under three time specified headings, viz.
Previous studies have reported factors that impact on quality of life, for example duration of illness and the amount of time spent caring [ 4, 7, 10, 11, 30].
For example, symptoms of illness or its treatment may be seen as a cause of depression; or physical symptoms and depression may interact so that the consequences of their co-existence are felt more severely.
