Diabetes mellitus.

abstract：Background:The benefits of pay-for-performance (P4P) programs are uncertain. Purpose:To update and expand a prior review examining the effects of P4P programs targeted at the physician, group, managerial, or institutional level on process-of-care and patient outcomes in ambulatory and inpatient settings. Data Sources...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mendelson A,Kondo K,Damberg C,Low A,Motúapuaka M,Freeman M,O'Neil M,Relevo R,Kansagara D

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The classification of acute leukemia has almost invariably been based on the morphologic diagnosis into two broad categories: acute lymphocytic and acute myeloid leukemia. Despite the wide range of morphologic variation in both groups, strict criteria to define the subgroups have only recently been proposed. The conve...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 genotypic and phenotypic susceptibility testing (GPT) optimizes antiretroviral selection, but its effect on survival is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association between GPT and survival. DESIGN:Cohort study. SETTING:10 U.S. HIV clinics. PATIENTS:2699 HIV-infected patients eligible for GPT (pl...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Palella FJ Jr,Armon C,Buchacz K,Cole SR,Chmiel JS,Novak RM,Wood K,Moorman AC,Brooks JT,HOPS (HIV Outpatient Study) Investigators.

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extracts of the medicinal plant Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F (TwHF) have been used in China for centuries to treat a spectrum of inflammatory diseases. OBJECTIVE:To compare the benefits and side effects of TwHF extract with those of sulfasalazine for the treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis. DESIGN:Ra...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Goldbach-Mansky R,Wilson M,Fleischmann R,Olsen N,Silverfield J,Kempf P,Kivitz A,Sherrer Y,Pucino F,Csako G,Costello R,Pham TH,Snyder C,van der Heijde D,Tao X,Wesley R,Lipsky PE

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New tests, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electron-beam computed tomography (CT), are being developed for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. OBJECTIVE:To determine the conditions that a new test must meet to be a cost-effective alternative to established imaging tests. DESIGN:Decision ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hunink MG,Kuntz KM,Fleischmann KE,Brady TJ

更新日期：1999-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In deciding whether to undertake a dietary program to reduce serum cholesterol levels, a person must consider how much benefit to expect. We developed a model that assumes cholesterol reduction is effective and safe in reducing the risk for death from ischemic heart disease. In the model, we considered asymptomatic ad...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Taylor WC,Pass TM,Shepard DS,Komaroff AL

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the tolerance and safety of oral dextran sulfate (UA001), a potent in-vitro inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related complex. DESIGN:Unblinded, dose-escalation 8-week trial. SETTING:An AIDS outpatient cl...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Abrams DI,Kuno S,Wong R,Jeffords K,Nash M,Molaghan JB,Gorter R,Ueno R

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:Antinuclear antibodies are present in most patients receiving procainamide. To ascertain whether IgG antiguanosine antibodies are associated with the development of the symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus, we compared the levels of these antibodies in the sera of 65 patients receiving procainamide: 18 with procai...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Weisbart RH,Yee WS,Colburn KK,Whang SH,Heng MK,Boucek RJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively studied the evaluation of dementia in 107 unselected outpatients; 83 had so-called "irreversible" dementias, including 74 who had an Alzheimer-type dementia. Fifteen patients had potentially reversible dementias, of which hypothyroidism and drug toxicity were the commonest causes. Distinguishing featu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Larson EB,Reifler BV,Featherstone HJ,English DR

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：DESCRIPTION:Updated U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation about screening for type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults. METHODS:To estimate the balance of benefits and harms of screening, the USPSTF updated its 2003 evidence review, adding evidence from new trials as well as updates on earlier studies....

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:For an estimated 10 million trips abroad by U.S. residents in 2002, "visiting friends and relatives" (VFR) was a purpose for travel. Made up largely of foreign-born U.S. residents and their children, this population shows disparities in the number of reported cases of many preventable travel-related illnesses compared...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Angell SY,Cetron MS

更新日期：2005-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the patient's major reasons for seeking care is of critical importance in a successful medical encounter. To study the physician's role in soliciting and developing the patient's concerns at the outset of a clinical encounter, 74 office visits were recorded. In only 17 (23%) of the visits was the patient p...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Beckman HB,Frankel RM

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of combined idiopathic immune neutropenia and immune thrombocytopenia (thromboneutropenia). Therapy with prednisone was ineffective. Treatment with vincristine raised the patient's platelet count but did not increase the neutrophil count. Splenectomy led to a prompt complete remission. Using radioimmu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Linker CA,Newcom SR,Nilsson CM,Wolf JL,Shuman MA

更新日期：1980-11-01 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：:Within 4 days, two oncology patients in the Clinical Research Unit had bacteremia causes by group Y Neisseria meningitidis. Three additional patients, identified by prevalence survey, were found to have nasopharyngeal colonization with that serogroup, compared with only one employee (not associated with patients) and ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cohen MS,Steere AC,Baltimore R,von Graevenitz A,Pantelick E,Camp B,Root RK

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome had biliary obstruction resulting from benign strictures of the biliary tract. Stenosis of the distal common bile duct with differing degrees of irregularity of the smaller intrahepatic and extrahepatic ducts was seen in association with either cryptosporidial...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Margulis SJ,Honig CL,Soave R,Govoni AF,Mouradian JA,Jacobson IM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reduce health care costs, some third-party payers have enlisted primary care physicians as gatekeepers to medical care. In gatekeeper systems, primary care physicians must approve all care provided to their patients. This approval is a condition of payment for the service, with the usual exception of true emergenci...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Eisenberg JM

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled clinical trial compared three-drug and four-drug combination chemotherapy in 109 patients with advanced small-cell anaplastic carcinoma of the lung. The combination of vincristine, 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-cyclohexyl-1-nitrosourea (CCNU), cyclophosphamide, and methotrexate was significantly superior to the com...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hansen HH,Dombernowsky P,Hansen M,Hirsch F

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse effects to D-penicillamine were studied prospectively over 3 years in 259 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Ninety-five percent had had gold therapy previously, yet 70% benefited from D-penicillamine therapy. Of the 275 courses given, 160 (58%) were complicated by at least one reaction, including rashes (44%...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stein HB,Patterson AC,Offer RC,Atkins CJ,Teufel A,Robinson HS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred forty previously healthy military personnel with nonstreptococcal upper respiratory infections were prospectively studied to define the incidence and clinicopathologic characteristics of possible virus-associated glomerulonephritis. Nine patients without preceding streptococcal infection had erythrocyte ca...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Smith MC,Cooke JH,Zimmerman DM,Bird JJ,Feaster BL,Morrison RE,Reimann BE

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The long-term risk for fatal pulmonary embolism (PE) after treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE) may be an important factor in the decision to discontinue this treatment. OBJECTIVE:To provide reliable and precise estimates of the annual risk for fatal PE and the case-fatality rate of disease recurrence ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Douketis JD,Gu CS,Schulman S,Ghirarduzzi A,Pengo V,Prandoni P

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with serious psychiatric disorders are frequently treated by primary care physicians, who may have difficulty keeping up with recent advances in psychiatry. This paper presents an updated synopsis for three major psychiatric illnesses: major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Current definitions...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Glick ID,Suppes T,DeBattista C,Hu RJ,Marder S

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes (RCVS) comprise a group of diverse conditions, all characterized by reversible multifocal narrowing of the cerebral arteries heralded by sudden (thunderclap), severe headaches with or without associated neurologic deficits. Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Calabrese LH,Dodick DW,Schwedt TJ,Singhal AB

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambulatory education has become an essential part of all internal medicine residencies. To develop excellent ambulatory education programs, we must thoroughly understand the opportunities available in such a setting, and the leaders in internal medicine must be willing to experiment with nontraditional locations and r...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Schuster BL

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The indications for treating patients with subclinical hypothyroidism (normal serum thyroxine and free thyroxine levels, but elevated serum thyrotrophin levels) are poorly defined. In this study, 33 patients with subclinical hypothyroidism were randomly assigned in a double-blind manner to receive placebo or L-thyroxi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cooper DS,Halpern R,Wood LC,Levin AA,Ridgway EC

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of events in time is fundamental to biomedical research and public health surveillance. Clinicians have an intuitive appreciation for the relevance of time to health and disease, and patients invariably ask questions relating to time for which clinicians need answers. An appreciation of the picture of health...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Samet JM

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis reduces the risk for venous thromboembolism after total hip replacement (THR) or total knee replacement (TKR). New oral anticoagulants (NOACs), including direct thrombin inhibitors and factor Xa inhibitors, are emerging options for thromboprophylaxis after these procedures. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Adam SS,McDuffie JR,Lachiewicz PF,Ortel TL,Williams JW Jr

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Frailty assessment may inform surgical risk and prognosis not captured by conventional surgical risk scores. Purpose:To evaluate the evidence for various frailty instruments used to predict mortality, functional status, or major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) in older adults unde...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kim DH,Kim CA,Placide S,Lipsitz LA,Marcantonio ER

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression collaborative care implementation using community engagement and planning (CEP) across programs improves 6-month client outcomes in minority communities, compared with technical assistance to individual programs (resources for services [RS]). However, 12-month outcomes are unknown. OBJECTIVE:To c...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chung B,Ong M,Ettner SL,Jones F,Gilmore J,McCreary M,Sherbourne C,Ngo V,Koegel P,Tang L,Dixon E,Miranda J,Belin TR,Wells KB

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00