"illness progression" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the advancement or worsening of an illness over time. For example, "Due to poor management of the illness, there was a rapid progression of symptoms."
Df shows sensitivity to treatment intervention and illness progression in the critically ill.
We didn't know what caused the clotting problem, but an illness progression like this feels like a betrayal -- as if we lured a patient in with the promise of a relatively straightforward cure and then never let him leave.
This article examines the evidence for illness progression after relapse in patients with schizophrenia.
Colom et al. (2010) investigated whether treatment response is affected by course of illness progression using the Kaplan Meier survival analysis.
This research would lead to a comprehensive working model of how BD develops in genetically at-risk individuals and refine the clinical staging model, while identifying novel stage-specific targets for intervention and prevention of illness progression.
The decline in cognitive functioning with illness progression has been elucidated by studies comparing FEM patients to those with multiple episodes (Elshahawi et al. 2011; Hellvin et al. 2012; López-Jaramillo et al. 2010; Torres et al. 2010).
Further, the methods employed will likely be useful for future studies aimed at disambiguating age-related versus illness progression changes associated with neuropsychiatric disorders that involve the cortico-basal ganglia circuitry.
This is particular true in the neurology field, where few techniques are amenable to study the affected tissue of the patient during illness progression, in addition to the lack of neuroprotective therapies for many diseases.
Together, our findings provide insights into the substrates of anatomical dysconnectivity patterns for schizophrenia and highlight the potential for connectome-based metrics as neural markers of illness progression and clinical change with treatment.
Relapse prevention is one of the major treatment objectives, because relapse represents burden and costs for patients, their environment, and society and seems to increase illness progression at the biological level.
However, the majority of research on cognition in bipolar disorder has been conducted on the later stages, and whilst cognitive impairments appear to worsen with illness progression (Robinson and Ferrier 2006), the extent and pattern of cognitive dysfunction in the early stages remain largely unknown.
