While the column "A Case in Point for the Maxim 'Do No Harm' " (May 30) tells the cautionary story of one patient, it would be a disservice, and perhaps would do harm, to leave the impression that treatment harms people with borderline personality disorder.
As emergency department clinicians, chief complaints, physical exam, and clinical judgment dictate our clinical impression and treatment plan.
The majority of parents reported a positive impression of treatment following their child's DGA.
The anti-tuberculous regimen is modified under the impression of treatment failure, drug resistance, or poor adherence.
Patients' mean global impression of treatment was measured on a five-point scale (where 0 = poor and 5 = excellent).
In less researched treatments, assessment of separate adverse events is limited by small numbers of such events, and so overall adverse events may represent a more reliable impression of treatment harms.
Both, estimated and measured MBLV values, were used to predict patients and investigators subjective impression of treatment effect [ 27], assessed as change from a baseline phase (56 days pretreatment) to final phase (last 56 days under treatment).
This communication habit by professionals may not only lead to unanswered questions and dissatisfaction, but may also give older patients the impression that treatment options exist but are not being offered to them.
Patients scored their general impression of treatment on a five-point scale (where 0 = poor and 4 = excellent) 60 minutes after administration.[ 29] The treatment difference for general impression between the two formulations was 0.2 in favour of INFS (p < 0.001).
RRR has previously been reported to convey an overly optimistic impression on treatment efficacy [ 19] and the present observations support this in the sense that subjects initially given RRR information tend to adjust consent to treatment downwards when given information in other formats.
