Existing literature on patient complexity has mainly identified its components descriptively and in isolation, lacking clarity as to their combined functions in disrupting care or to how complexity changes over time.
Individual pathological features, in isolation, lacked sensitivity and specificity.
Reynolds said contributing factors to the rural GP shortage were isolation, lack of schooling options and social activities, and poor access to broadband networks.
For families who confront the challenges of poverty — isolation, lack of educational opportunities, lack of transportation to participate early childhood education — the program is often a first exposure to this access of knowledge and learning tools.
Yet despite its prevalence in mental illness, sleep disruption has been largely ignored, dismissed as a consequence of either social isolation, lack of employment, anti-psychotic medication.
Since then, Nabil has been subjected to all the horrors of the Gitmo handbook: sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, temperature extremes, prolonged isolation, lack of access to sunlight, almost no recreation and limited medical care.
The reasons often cited include feelings of isolation, lack of support, or maybe just caring too much about grades (there is typically less grade inflation in STEM fields than in the humanities or social sciences).
Woyzeck himself could have been the saddest sack to ever grace a German stage but Knopp draws an affecting portrait of a man for whom isolation, lack of respect and any kind of meaningful existence ("everything under the sun is work," he says at one point) – in short, a life dehumanised – ends with an act that is completely lacking in humanity.
If there is a cause of addiction for patients with chronic pain, it is the desperation induced by searing pain itself, combined with isolation, lack of support, and the resulting deep depression and anger that come with seeing one's life slip away.
In addition, said Samuel Hyde Jr., a historian at Southeastern Louisiana University, eastern Louisiana was in a state of near anarchy for most of the 19th century, a result of its pinewoods isolation, lack of political authority and vicious guerrilla fighting during the Civil War.
