Citations:worsener

outside medicine

 * 1975, Sri A. S. Chetti, G. V. L. N. Sarma, Great Indian Social Reformers and Philanthropists:
 * They, like faggots, may be needed too but they do not ignite— no spark! Often even with all the fire supplied by the people who would better the World, these 'faggots' never light up. Too damp with the water of mundane tradition superimposed on an innovation — resistant background. We do not hear of them — no we do not, and history does not waste space on them either. We do hear very much of the two other categories— the "betterers" and the "worseners." The latter are the ...
 * 1997, Uday Desai, Mack C. Shelley, State science policy symposium:
 * Liberal reformers are "world worseners" because the result of their attempts to improve conditions inevitably backfires. Any liberal attempt to reduce unemployment actually increases it; liberal efforts to help families with dependent children encourage mothers on welfare to have more children, thus creating their own prison of poverty. The conservative author Charles Murray (1984, p. 9) argues: "We [the United States] tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead.

in medicine

 * 1985, Donald W. Morgan, Psychopharmacology: Impact on Clinical Psychiatry, Ishiyaku EuroAmerica, Incorporated (ISBN 9780912791067):
 * Of the three worseners, one had previously not changed with the index infusion, and four of the patients who had previously worsened did not change at this time, suggesting that neuroleptic drugs had induced a stabilization in the majority of patients. However, one patient improved with d-amphetamine at this particular time (Fig. 7). Study V Relapse Prediction Six patients experienced an increase in psychosis and seven patients showed no change after the pimozide amphetamine ...
 * 1969, Alfred W. Clark, Neville T. Yeomans, Fraser House: theory, practice, and evaluation of a therapeutic community:
 * The effect of extracting the sociopaths from Table 17.1 is to reduce the number of supramode worseners from seven to three, improvers from three to two. Thus, of the supramode positions, three nonsociopathic core members worsen and two nonsociopathic fringe members improve. The total movement for nonsociopaths is then 1 1 improvers, 5 worseners. There is thus Q-sort evidence that the Unit is a true community, and that worse patients improve more than the best worsen.
 * 2013, Ann M. Coulston, Carol Boushey, Mario Ferruzzi, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease, Academic Press (ISBN 9780123918840), page 261:
 * Its strength lies in the fact that in randomly allocating the members of the sample to one intervention or the other, we actually randomly allocate the unrecognizable “improvers” and “worseners” to the treatment and control groups. From centuries of experience with the laws of probability, we are able to estimate the likelihood that a substantial disproportion of the improvers were by chance allocated to the active agent and, correspondingly, a substantial fraction of the worseners to the ...