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disorder
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disorder [dis′ȯrd·ər]
(crystallography)
Departures from regularity in the occupation of lattice sites in a crystal containing more than one element.


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While 1,238 patients participated in baseline interviews, this first analysis focuses on patients with major depression or clinically significant minor depression, defined by the DSM-IV research criteria for minor depressive disorder modified by requiring four depressive symptoms, the HAM-D (score equal to or less than 10), and duration of at least 4 weeks.
Thirty-eight percent of the patients (30 people) developed a major or minor depressive disorder during the 6 months after their hip fracture.
The positive predictive value in differentiating between major and minor depressive disorder was 79%.
 
 
 
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