Anti-retroviral therapy-induced status epilepticus in "pseudo-HIV serodeconversion".

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the US national level healthcare utilization patterns of patients with commercial insurance plans before and after a psychiatric hospitalization admitted through the emergency department (ED) using insurance claims data. METHOD:We identified 34,250 patients from multiple commercial health ins...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Xi W,Banerjee S,Penfold RB,Simon GE,Alexopoulos GS,Pathak J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity and clinical use of a recently developed instrument to assess health care needs of patients with a physical illness, called INTERMED, is investigated. The INTERMED combines data reflecting patients' biological, psychological, and social characteristics with information on health care utilization character...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Stiefel FC,de Jonge P,Huyse FJ,Guex P,Slaets JP,Lyons JS,Spagnoli J,Vannotti M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a standardized measure of health beliefs, this study sought to disentangle factors that contribute to increased medical service use in a sample of 64 high-utilizing elderly patients. In adjusted models, people with depressive symptoms were more likely than those without depression to believe that they were susce...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Levinson CM,Druss BG

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS), which encompasses profound psychological morbidity, affects many survivors of critical illness. We hypothesize that acute psychological stress during the intensive care unit (ICU) confinement likely contributes to PICS. In order to develop strategies that mitigate PICS ass...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Dziadzko V,Dziadzko MA,Johnson MM,Gajic O,Karnatovskaia LV

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is known to be caused by a variety of clinical disorders. The authors encountered a case of PRES associated with acute pancreatitis and chronic alcoholism. A 49-year-old man presented with altered mental status. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) displayed vasogenic ed...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Baek HS,Lee SJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of reports have suggested that some cases of multiple personality disorder might be due to temporal lobe epileptic discharges. We have administered a structured interview, the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule, to 20 subjects with multiple personality disorder, 20 with complex partial seizures, and 28...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Ross CA,Heber S,Anderson G,Norton GR,Anderson BA,del Campo M,Pillay N

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advancing medical technology presents problems to medical professionals previously unforeseen. Psychiatric consultants are frequently called upon to assist staff, patients, and families in addressing these issues. The nursing staff of an infant intensive care unit was surveyed as to their perceptions of their work and...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Brack G,LaClave LJ,Heumann KA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 96 frequent attender patients in primary care were compared with 466 other primary care patients. The focus was on psychiatric morbidity, current and former psychiatric treatment, and self-perceived need for treatment. The prevalence of psychiatric illness was much greater among frequent attender patien...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Karlsson H,Lehtinen V,Joukamaa M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotic symptoms and cognitive fluctuation are common manifestations of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). However, the differentiation of these symptoms is difficult because many psychiatric, neurologic, and medical conditions in addition to drug effects can mimic DLB in elderly people. We report on an 83-year-old wo...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Park IS,Yoo SW,Lee KS,Kim JS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coping with impaired appearance presents difficulties for children. This study is based on interviews of children with vitiligo, a disfiguring disorder that involves depigmentation of the skin, and focuses on social and psychologic factors that predict effectiveness of coping. Age plays an extremely important part in ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Hill-Beuf A,Porter JD

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkages between psychiatry and other medical specialties have become increasingly evident over the past decade. Reinstatement of the medical internship for psychiatric trainees, expansion of psychiatric liaison services, growth of general hospital psychiatric units, determination of the extensive role served by nonps...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Pardes H

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated the effects of limited time and high patient pressures on the role of gender and other nonpsychiatric factors in diagnostic decision making in psychiatric emergency services (PES). METHODS:We reviewed the records of 1236 adult psychiatric patients treated by 75 clinicians (e.g., psychiatrists...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Muroff JR,Jackson JS,Mowbray CT,Himle JA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most prevalent long-term psychiatric diagnoses among survivors of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to identify the predictors of chronic PTSD in SARS survivors. DESIGN:PTSD at 30 months after the SARS ou...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Mak IW,Chu CM,Pan PC,Yiu MG,Ho SC,Chan VL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family systems theory provides the physician with a comprehensive paradigm to investigate the social and interpersonal context of physical illness. All physical illnesses, particularly life-threatening and chronic ones, profoundly affect the family life of the patient, and the changed family circumstances in turn have...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Sholevar GP,Perkel R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about which factors may adversely affect response to psychotherapy in diabetic patients with major depression. We studied the relationship of various demographic, diabetes, and depression characteristics to change in depression in 42 patients with type 2 diabetes who completed a randomized clinical tri...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Lustman PJ,Freedland KE,Griffith LS,Clouse RE

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports DSM-III diagnoses and demographic characteristics of 100 patients consecutively referred to a university hospital consultation-liaison service for evaluation of medically unexplained symptoms suggesting physical disorders. Thirty-seven percent of patients received diagnoses of somatoform, dissociati...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Slavney PR,Teitelbaum ML

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The prevalence of depression in multiple sclerosis (MS) is known to be elevated, but nearly all available studies have estimated period prevalence. The objective of this study was to estimate the point prevalence of depression in a representative community sample using the Patient Health Questionnaire, Brief ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Viner R,Fiest KM,Bulloch AG,Williams JV,Lavorato DH,Berzins S,Jetté N,Metz LM,Patten SB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a schizophrenic man whose lack of pain and related objective signs of a perforated small bowel led to a delay in diagnosis and surgical intervention. A review of the literature suggests that both psychodynamic and specific biologic factors can produce atypical presentations in psychotic patients with illne...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Rosenthal SH,Porter KA,Coffey B

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the differences in the level of perceived helpfulness of treatments received for a major depressive episode (MDE) from a general medical provider only, a specialty mental health provider only or both. METHOD:This study examined a sample of 8900 respondents from the 2008-2012 National Surv...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Kuramoto-Crawford SJ,Han B,Jacobus-Kantor L,Mojtabai R

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Very few studies have evaluated the level of distress due to the experience of delirium in patients who have recovered from delirium. METHODOLOGY:Fifty-three patients were rated on Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 at baseline and were again evaluated on Delirium Experience Questionnaire after recovery for l...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Grover S,Shah R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatization is a common phenomenon that has been defined in many ways. The two most widely used diagnoses, Somatization Disorder (SD) and Abridged Somatization Disorder (ASD), are based on lifetime unexplained symptoms. However, reports indicate instability in lifetime symptom recall among somatizing patients. Multis...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Dickinson WP,Dickinson LM,deGruy FV,Candib LM,Main DS,Libby AM,Rost K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypochondriasis is frequently defined as a chronic condition distinct from anxiety and depressive disorders. Consecutive primary care attenders (n=25,916) were screened using the General Health Questionnaire and a stratified random sample (n=5447) completed a baseline diagnostic assessment. All patients with significa...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Simon GE,Gureje O,Fullerton C

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors surveyed 356 family medicine residency training directors to determine the role of psychiatrists in family medicine training. Two hundred five responses were received, covering the training experiences of 3696 residents. Psychiatrists were actively involved in the training programs, but their role was circ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Berlin RM,Berenbaum I,Wise TN,Ahmed SW

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe a patient with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) presenting with impulse control disorders (ICDs) which responded to fluvoxamine and topiramate. CASE REPORT:A 64-year-old woman was affected by several ICDs. At disease onset, she suffered from impulsive smoking and overeating whic...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Pompanin S,Jelcic N,Cecchin D,Cagnin A

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most psychiatric patients obtain care in the nonpsychiatric units of general hospitals. Two groups of 100 psychiatric consultation patients in a private hospital setting and in a public hospital were compared. Significant differences were found. Patients in the public hospital were medically, psychiatrically, and soci...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Kuhn WF,Bell RA,Frierson RL,Lippmann SB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess professionals' adherence to evidence-based guidelines and to investigate whether or not this is influenced by recording of the diagnosis and symptom severity. METHOD:Analysis of baseline cross-sectional data of a cohort study of 721 primary care patients with a confirmed diagnosis of a depressive ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Smolders M,Laurant M,Verhaak P,Prins M,van Marwijk H,Penninx B,Wensing M,Grol R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of inpatient referral to a general hospital psychiatry department was examined in the present study. The referral rate of 3.6% was higher than those reported by other investigators from India. The majority of the patients had concurrent physical illness. Neurotic depression and alcohol dependence were the ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Srinivasan K,Babu RK,Appaya P,Subrahmanyam HS

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with an acute organic brain syndrome and accompanying neurological symptoms are described. Extensive work up showed that both patients suffered from small-cell lung cancer. Cerebral metastases were absent. Following chemotherapy and radiotherapy to the primary tumor one of the two patients showed a comple...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： den Hollander AM,van Hulst AM,Meerwaldt JD,Haasjes JG

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful operation of a medical-psychiatry unit requires special considerations in nursing staff development and facility design. This article will discuss in detail issues related to the selection, training, and development of a medical-psychiatry unit nursing staff. Organizational details regarding establishing sc...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Cowart T,Stoudemire A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysthymia is one of the most prevalent problems in primary care, especially in the elderly. In this study, we evaluated the demographic and clinical predictors of nonresponse to treatment in primary care patients with dysthymia. The study sample consisted of 338 primary care patients meeting DSMIII-R criteria for dyst...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Katon W,Russo J,Frank E,Barrett J,Williams JW Jr,Oxman T,Sullivan M,Cornell J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00