Of the three of us, I’m responsible for the web site, most Email that come via the site, and all the translation work. Since our post on 7/7/16 I was very caught up in finishing my clinical post (permanently) at the end of July and then setting off on a trip of a lifetime: trying […]
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All three of us as CST trustees are deeply disappointed in the outcome of the referendum. As a part of a collective recovery from the vote, it seems important to make a statement about our position. CORE is tiny in terms of the impacts of “Brexit” on the UK and the EU, and the horrible
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The original commissioning specification for the CORE system required that the items in the measure covered domains of wellbeing (or “well being”, or “well-being”: there’s another naming issue!), problems/symptoms, functioning and risk. The questions were supposed, where possible to include intrapsychic ones and interpersonal ones and functioning was to cover both more personal/intimate and more
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We may have caused a bit of confusion by introducing the term “Clinical score”. Perhaps it’s not on the scale of the Capulet/Montague name tragedy (Shakespeare, 1591-1995?) but it may be worth explaining the scoring here as I do see mistakes and do get asked about this. History We started out scoring using the mean
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Since the first of January (2015) anyone can put any CORE measure into software under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. Previously, we had restricted this permission just to people using the measure in software just for a research project and otherwise only to CORE Information Management Systems (CORE IMS) and
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Just a quick post to say that a very incomplete site, but one that contains the vital information about the change in licensing and the bare bones of all that will come, goes live, as planned, today. Best wishes to all, Chris
