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2944926

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-11-13
pubmed:abstractText
In an attempt to identify clinical predictors of future course and lithium response a more rigorously defined group of patients were studied than has previously been reported in the literature. Thus the study group comprised 98 bipolar 1 patients who had been hospitalised only once and satisfied DSM-III criteria for mania. Of the clinical factors studied, including the prescription of lithium, only the duration of illness predicted likelihood of re-admission. It was of little practical value, however, accounting for only 4% of the variance between groups. Although 49% of the patients were prescribed prophylactic lithium none of the variables studied predicted which patients relapsed despite adequate plasma levels of the drug. It would seem that prediction of outcome and response to lithium cannot be based on clinical factors.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0165-0327
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
35-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-9-28
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical prediction of outcome and lithium response in bipolar affective disorder.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article