"Unexplained" somatic symptoms, functional syndromes, and somatization: do we need a paradigm shift?

abstract：:Tetanus is an expected complication when disasters strike in developing countries, where tetanus immunization coverage is often low or nonexistent. Collapsing structures and swirling debris inflict numerous crush injuries, fractures, and serious wounds. Clostridium tetani infects wounds contaminated with dirt, feces, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Afshar M,Raju M,Ansell D,Bleck TP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Screening can detect prostate cancer at earlier, asymptomatic stages, when treatments might be more effective. PURPOSE:To update the 2002 and 2008 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force evidence reviews on screening and treatments for prostate cancer. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE (2002 to July 2011) and the Cochrane ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chou R,Croswell JM,Dana T,Bougatsos C,Blazina I,Fu R,Gleitsmann K,Koenig HC,Lam C,Maltz A,Rugge JB,Lin K

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been reported that walnuts reduce serum cholesterol levels in normal young men. OBJECTIVE:To assess the acceptability of walnuts and their effects on serum lipid levels and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidizability in free-living hypercholesterolemic persons. DESIGN:Randomized, crossover feeding t...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Zambón D,Sabaté J,Muñoz S,Campero B,Casals E,Merlos M,Laguna JC,Ros E

更新日期：2000-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:During the early 1990s, the U.S. government addressed the issue of providing universal health care to all its citizens. Although this issue has not been completely resolved, centralization of electronic data and sharing of health care information among insurers and providers have been pursued. The emergence of electro...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gostin L

更新日期：1997-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 18 million Americans currently have diabetes mellitus. The economic and human cost of the disease is devastating. In the United States, diabetes is the most common cause of blindness among working-age adults, the most common cause of nontraumatic amputations and end-stage renal disease, and the sixth most co...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Williamson DF,Vinicor F,Bowman BA,Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Primary Prevention Working Group.

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Injection insulin therapy is not readily accepted by patients and many health care providers; therefore, less invasive options for insulin therapy are desirable. PURPOSE:To examine the efficacy, safety, and patient acceptability of inhaled insulin therapy in nonpregnant adults with diabetes mellitus. DATA ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ceglia L,Lau J,Pittas AG

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ensuring patient safety is essential for better health care, but preoccupation with niches of medicine, such as patient safety, can inadvertently compromise outcomes if it distracts from other problems that pose a greater threat to health. The greatest benefit for the population comes from a comprehensive view of popu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Woolf SH

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent evidence shows that arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) offers no benefit over conservative treatment of patients with a degenerative meniscus tear. However, patients who report mechanical symptoms (sensations of knee catching or locking) may benefit from APM. OBJECTIVE:To assess whether APM impr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sihvonen R,Englund M,Turkiewicz A,Järvinen TL,Finnish Degenerative Meniscal Lesion Study Group.

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although thyroid nodules are common, few are malignant and require surgical treatment. A systematic approach to their evaluation is important to avoid unnecessary surgery. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy has resulted in substantial improvements in diagnostic accuracy, cost reductions, and higher malignancy yield at time...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Castro MR,Gharib H

更新日期：2005-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether low bone density and other risk factors for osteoporosis are associated with stress fractures in athletes. DESIGN:Case-control study. SETTING:Institutional sports injury clinic with primary and secondary care. PARTICIPANTS:Twenty-five athletes (nineteen women) with scintigraphically co...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Myburgh KH,Hutchins J,Fataar AB,Hough SF,Noakes TD

更新日期：1990-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The National Kidney Foundation has advocated the use of the abbreviated Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation to estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) from serum creatinine measurements in clinical laboratories. However, healthy persons were not included in the development of the MDRD equ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rule AD,Larson TS,Bergstralh EJ,Slezak JM,Jacobsen SJ,Cosio FG

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances of urinary bladder function are well-recognized problems in diabetic patients and are generally attributed to peripheral neuropathy. Because of the difficulties inherent in the histologic examination of the peripheral autonomic nerves, little is known about the pathology of these nerves. Recently, alterat...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mastri AR

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels after bilateral adrenalectomy could be secondary to a pituitary tumor, under replacement with cortisol, or an abnormality in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal feedback loop. To distinguish between these possibilities, ACTH levels were measured before and after corti...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Koletsky RJ,Dluhy RG,Crantz FR,Williams GH

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently developed radioligand binding techniques permit direct investigation of the alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors for catecholamines in a wide variety of tissues. These techniques allow the receptors to be quantitated, characterized, and studied under varying conditions of physiologic and pathophysiologic inte...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：DESCRIPTION:This guideline is an official statement of the American College of Physicians (ACP), American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), American Thoracic Society (ATS), and European Respiratory Society (ERS). It represents an update of the 2007 ACP clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and management of stable...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Qaseem A,Wilt TJ,Weinberger SE,Hanania NA,Criner G,van der Molen T,Marciniuk DD,Denberg T,Schünemann H,Wedzicha W,MacDonald R,Shekelle P,American College of Physicians.,American College of Chest Physicians.,American Thoracic

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was studied in a group of patients with cancer who received transfusion of blood components harvested from a single, asymptomatic, seropositive donor. Of ten living recipients, nine had antibodies to the virus in fresh or cryopreserved sera at a median of 384 days...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson KC,Gorgone BC,Marlink RG,Ferriani R,Essex ME,Benz PM,Groopman JE

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of asymptomatic hyperuricemia is controversial. Reported benefits from treatment prevention of acute gouty arthritis, chronic tophaceous gout, urolithiasis, or gouty nephropathy. A review of experimental and clinical data suggests that the risks of asymptomatic hyperuricemia are small or unknown and the...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Liang MH,Fries JF

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1969, medications have been provided to patients at the Johns Hopkins Hospital using a computer system that controls the entire medication process from entry of physician's order to hourly drug distribution. Special envelopes containing patient and dosage information are computer generated for each dose to be ad...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Simborg DW,Derewicz HJ

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review methods of preventing or minimizing the adverse effects associated with the transfusion of passenger leukocytes present in cellular blood components and to define groups of patients who are at risk for adverse effects. DATA SOURCES:English-language articles on transfusion medicine. STUDY SELECTION:O...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lane TA,Anderson KC,Goodnough LT,Kurtz S,Moroff G,Pisciotto PT,Sayers M,Silberstein LE

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1978 the Institute of Medicine issued "A Manpower Policy for Health Care," the report of a study of major issues bearing on the availability of an adequate number of physicians for provision of primary care and on potential strategies for an appropriate manpower policy. The report was analyzed by committees of the ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Peterson ML

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma is increasing rapidly. Gastroesophageal reflux is a strong risk factor for this disease. The increase in incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma coincided with the introduction of medications that promote reflux by relaxing the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), such ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lagergren J,Bergström R,Adami HO,Nyrén O

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony-stimulating factors are growth factors responsible for the proliferation and the maturation of bone marrow stem cells to fully differentiated granulocytes and monocytes. In addition to their effects on hematopoiesis, some colony-stimulating factors prime mature cells for enhanced chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and k...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Weisbart RH,Gasson JC,Golde DW

更新日期：1989-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of treating Helicobacter pylori infection on the recurrence of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease. DESIGN:Follow-up of up to 2 years in patients with healed ulcers who had participated in randomized, controlled trials. SETTING:A Veterans Affairs hospital. PARTICIPANTS:A total of 109...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Graham DY,Lew GM,Klein PD,Evans DG,Evans DJ Jr,Saeed ZA,Malaty HM

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy in prolonging survival for women with breast cancer has been well documented, limited population-based information is available on the actual use of chemotherapy. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between age and chemotherapy use. DESIGN:Cohort study. SET...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Du XL,Key CR,Osborne C,Mahnken JD,Goodwin JS

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although some studies suggest that access to cardiac procedures may differ by sex, others have found no evidence of gender bias in cardiac care. OBJECTIVE:To study rates of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in men and women after cardiac catheterization....

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ghali WA,Faris PD,Galbraith PD,Norris CM,Curtis MJ,Saunders LD,Dzavik V,Mitchell LB,Knudtson ML,Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH) Investigators.

更新日期：2002-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare single-dose and 10-day treatment regimens of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole in women with acute dysuria, urgency, or urinary frequency. DESIGN:Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. SETTING:Student health center at a major university. PATIENTS:Consecutive sample of 255 young wo...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fihn SD,Johnson C,Roberts PL,Running K,Stamm WE

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Bone health is a significant concern in men with prostate cancer. Purpose:To evaluate the effectiveness of drug, supplement, and lifestyle interventions aimed at preventing fracture, improving bone mineral density (BMD), or preventing or delaying osteoporosis in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer. Data...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Alibhai SMH,Zukotynski K,Walker-Dilks C,Emmenegger U,Finelli A,Morgan SC,Hotte SJ,Tomlinson GA,Winquist E

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of a nurse-managed intervention for smoking cessation in patients who have had a myocardial infarction. DESIGN:Randomized, with a 6-month treatment period and a 6-month follow-up. SETTING:Kaiser Foundation hospitals in Redwood City, Santa Clara, Hayward, and San Jose, Californi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Taylor CB,Houston-Miller N,Killen JD,DeBusk RF

更新日期：1990-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies of the cause of gastrointestinal symptoms in homosexual men, Campylobacter jejuni was recovered from 10 of 158 men with, and 2 of 75 men without, intestinal symptoms. In addition, a heterogeneous group of Campylobacter-like organisms was identified in 26 symptomatic and 6 asymptomatic homosexual men, but in...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Quinn TC,Goodell SE,Fennell C,Wang SP,Schuffler MD,Holmes KK,Stamm WE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two recent double-blind, randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) showed that oral steroids and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have similar analgesic effectiveness for management of gout, but the trials had small sample sizes and other methodological limitations. OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness and...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rainer TH,Cheng CH,Janssens HJ,Man CY,Tam LS,Choi YF,Yau WH,Lee KH,Graham CA

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00