Recently, researchers have examined patterns of incident disease among persons emigrating from high-incidence (generally >50 cases/100,000 persons/year) to low-incidence regions (generally ≈10 cases/100,000 persons/year) (1– 5).
This study provides important insights into the costs as well as the treatment patterns of incident ADHD patients.
Previous publications focused mainly on prevalent patients and thus research gaps were identified regarding costs and treatment patterns of incident patients before and after the first diagnosis.
We explain that the patterns of incident disease are consistent with the current understanding of the natural history of TB and offer additional support for the argument that infection confers only partial immunity and reinfection plays a major role in areas with high TB incidence.
But Abu Ghraib was no rumor; it was an incident — indeed, part of a pattern of incidents — of indiscipline, cruelty, and moral failure.
Instead it is a "purposeful pattern of incidents that occur over time enabling someone to exert power and control, or coerce another".
In 2013, the government proudly trumpeted the introduction of a new definition of domestic violence and abuse as: "any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality.
Official definition of domestic abuse in England and Wales: "Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality".
The US Supreme Court has ruled on more than one occasion that the creation of a hostile environment requires a pattern of incidents - and no single incident, no matter how severe, can by itself be a pattern.
The absence of a clear temporal pattern of incident emotional distress in the cancer trajectory indicates a need for clinician vigilance throughout the first year from diagnosis.
