Talk:Comorbidity

message: Can we expand this to include the use of this word outside of medicine? futurebird 21:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  not just medical 

message: You must admit "co-morbid" sounds rather morbid to the layman... Jidanni 06:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're implying a title change, maybe something less morbid will redirect here but that's what it's called so changing the title would be unencyclopedic. JordanZed 14:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sounds morbid 

message: In recent years I have heard the term cormorbid more commonly used to refer to people who have both a mental health diagnosis and alcohol or other drug issues, as opposed to people who have mental health and intellectual disability who have been referred to as having dual-diagnosis. I am unsure if this is part of a regional lexicon or more widely used. I personally find it a more useful definition as most people with chronic mental illness seem to have more than one diagnosis.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.69.3.127 (talk) 06:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comorbidity in Mental Health 

message: I don't understand the value of having 2 definitions, for Trans-syndromal comorbidity & Trans-nosological comorbidity, with the exact same definition.
This seems like a paste-o, but I don't know either word well enough to sort out which one has the correct definition or to correct the other one.
If I'm mistaken and both phrases have the exact same meaning, I would love to see a reference that explains why there are 2 technical terms that are exact synonyms.
Wcoole (talk) 23:21, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Types of comorbidity 

message: The definition given is: to indicate a medical condition existing simultaneously but independently with another condition in a patient (this is the older and more "correct" definition)
Yet there is a section Causes of comorbidity; no how can you reconcile "independently", with 
:    Anatomic proximity of diseased organs
:   Singular pathogenetic mechanism of a number of diseases
:   Terminable cause-effect relation between the diseases
:    One disease resulting from complications of another
The whole article reads like a (poorly written) textbook for medical students, not like an encyclopedic entry, like someone threw together pieces of different sources, without much insight or a clear overview. 84.197.190.98 (talk) 07:13, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Written while sleep deprived, so not sure if it's valid.. ;-) 84.197.190.98 (talk) 10:23, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  badly written article 

message: The article is self-contradictory in the very definition of comorbidity: is it Presence and effects, or just effects?
The lead says that it's the "presence of one or more additional disorders... or the effect of such..." which sounds right to me.  But the body says:
In medicine, comorbidity describes the effect of all other diseases an individual patient might have other than the primary disease of interest.
Which is it?  This difference needs to be resolved. Mathglot (talk) 22:58, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictory definitions 

message: The second paragraph is worded too uh.. complicated, imo. I read it 5 times and I still dont get it. Especially the psychiatry integration piece, i wanted to know more about that, but couldnt figure it out. 04:05, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  second paragraph makes my brain hurt 

message: In psychiatric diagnoses it has been argued in part that this "'use of imprecise language may lead to correspondingly imprecise thinking', [and] this usage of the term 'comorbidity' should probably be avoided."
Are they worried about the psychiatrists succumbing to the sloppiness of their own thinking, or that using this language in front of their clientele is unwise, because a fair percentage of this population "extremizes" to begin with? 
Asking for a friend. — MaxEnt 21:37, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is confused?  

message: — Assignment last updated by Cament1 (talk) 15:22, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Technical and Scientific Communication

message: In the second to last paragraph in the research section, it discusses how specialists other than psychologists and physicians tend to overlook comorbidity. Some of the wording in this paragraph sounds persuasive and biased. If the paragraph is kept, it might benefit from some rewording to be more neutral and some references to back up the information.
~~~~ Cemilybowler (talk) 04:36, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased Tone