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Juan E. Mezzich
Researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Publications - 160
Citations - 3373
Juan E. Mezzich is an academic researcher from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 156 publications receiving 3130 citations. Previous affiliations of Juan E. Mezzich include World Psychiatric Association.
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Disproportionate suicidality in patients with comorbid major depression and alcoholism.
Jack R. Cornelius,Ihsan M. Salloum,Juan E. Mezzich,Marie D. Cornelius,Horacio Fabrega,Joan G. Ehler,Richard F. Ulrich,Michael E. Thase,J. John Mann +8 more
TL;DR: The clinical profile of depressed alcoholics suggests that they suffer an additive or synergistic effect of two separate disorders, resulting in a disproportionately high level of acute suicidality upon initial psychiatric evaluation.
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The place of culture in DSM-IV.
Juan E. Mezzich,Laurence J. Kirmayer,Arthur Kleinman,Horacio Fabrega,Delores L. Parron,Byron J. Good,Keh-Ming Lin,Spero M. Manson +7 more
TL;DR: A step forward has been taken to introduce cultural elements in DSM-IV, but much remains to be done to ensure that future diagnostic systems incorporate a genuinely comprehensive framework, responsive to the complexity of health problems in increasingly multicultural societies.
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The care of the patient and the soul of the clinic: person-centered medicine as an emergent model of modern clinical practice
Andrew Miles,Juan E. Mezzich +1 more
TL;DR: It is recommended that a move away from impersonal, fragmented and decontextualised systems of healthcare towards personalised, integrated and contextualised models of clinical practice, so that affordable biomedical and technological advance can be delivered to patients within a humanistic framework of care.
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The World Health Organization Short Disability Assessment Schedule (WHO DAS-S): a tool for the assessment of difficulties in selected areas of functioning of patients with mental disorders
Aleksandar Janca,M. Kastrup,Heinz Katschnig,Juan J. López-Ibor,Juan E. Mezzich,Norman Sartorius +5 more
TL;DR: The WHO DAS-S was developed and underwent preliminarily testing in the context of two international field trials of the multiaxial presentation of ICD-10 for use in adult psychiatry and was found to be useful, user-friendly and reasonably reliable.
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Person-centred integrative diagnosis: conceptual bases and structural model.
Juan E. Mezzich,Ihsan M. Salloum,C. Robert Cloninger,Luis Salvador-Carulla,Laurence J. Kirmayer,Claudio E. M. Banzato,Jan Wallcraft,Michel Botbol +7 more
TL;DR: PID is aimed at appraising overall health through pluralistic descriptions and evaluative partnerships, and leading through a research program to more effective, integrative, and person-centred health care.