Compulsions definition

The corrective action requirements fail to stipulate when corrective action should be taken except to say that they shall be to a degree appropriate to the risks encountered. There is no compulsion for the supplier to correct nonconformities before repeat production or shipment of subsequent product. However, immediate correction is not always practical. You should base the timing of your corrective action on the severity of the nonconformities. All nonconformities are costly to the business, but correction also adds to the cost and should be matched to the benefits it will accrue (see later under Risks). Any action taken to eliminate a nonconformity before the customer receives the product or service could be considered a preventive action. By this definition, final inspection is a preventive action because it should prevent the supply of nonconforming product to the customer. However, an error becomes a nonconformity when detected at any acceptance stage in the process, as indicated in clause 4.12 of the standard. Therefore an action taken to eliminate a potential nonconformity prior to an acceptance stage is a preventive action. This rules out any inspection stages as being preventive action measures - they are detection measures only. 

Note Doses are provided as general guidelines only, and are not meant to be definitive. All doses must be individualized and monitored through appropriate clinical and/or laboratory means. ADHD, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder bid, twice daily c, capsule CYP, cytochrome P450 EKG electrocardiogram FDA, Food and Drug Administration IM, intramuscular MDD, major depressive disorder OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder PDD, pervasive developmental disorder qd, once daily qhs each bedtime qoWk, every other week t, tablet tid, three times daily TS, Tourette s syndrome WBC, white blood cell count. 

Addiction is a complex behavior that refers to compulsive drug use. Addiction research is one of the few scientific areas that involves the biological and social sciences neurobiology, psychology, and sociology. Because of its complexity, there is much disagreement on the precise medical definition of addic-... 

Some obsessions or compulsions may masquerade as a specific phobia or agoraphobia conversely, anxiety about OCD symptoms may mimic a panic attack. Alternatively, it is possible that the co-morbidity is real and has some significance other than definitional. 

Obsessive-compulsive disordet is rare in obsessive-compulsive personalities. One study found that only 6% of these personality disorders have OCD thus, it is quite likely that the two conditions are distinct (260). The implication for treatment is that agents helpful for OCD (e.g., clomipramine) may not benefit obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Definitive studies to address this issue have not been conducted, however. 

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a syndrome characterized by obsessions and/ or compulsions, which together last at least an hour per day and are sufficiently bothersome that they interfere with one s normal social or occupational functioning. Obsessions are experienced internally and subjectively by the patient as thoughts, impulses, or images. According to standard definitions in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV), obsessions are intrusive and inappropriate and cause marked anxiety and distress. Common obsessions are listed in Table 9—1. 

Although akathisia by definition usually involves a hyperactive movement component, clinical experience indicates that it may be accompanied with a feeling of jitteriness without actual physical movement that is, the same jittery, agitated subjective experience, accompanied by irritability, violence, or suicidal feelings, can occur without the specific component of feeling driven to move about. Indeed, on earlier occasions, the individual may have experienced the associated compulsion toward hyperactivity. Healy (1994) made similar observations. 

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is rarely diagnosed in African Americans (Friedman et al. 1993 Hatch et al. 1992 Paradis et al. 1994). Although there are no definitive studies, case reports suggest that many of these patients are diagnosed as being psychotic (Lawson 1999). The ego-dystonic obsessions in obsessive-compulsive disorder may easily be misinterpreted as delusions or a thought disturbance, and the compulsions may be mistaken for psychotic behavior (Hwang and Hollander 1993). 

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