{"title":"Generalized anxiety and panic disorder.","authors":"Joseph Rabatin, Lynn Buckvar Keltz","doi":"10.1136/ewjm.176.3.164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ewjm.176.3.164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 3","pages":"164-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071705/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71432155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dyspepsia, peptic ulcer disease, and esophageal reflux disease.","authors":"Mark D Schwartz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 2","pages":"98-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071675/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71490945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surf's up! Protecting the privacy of health information on the Internet: we need new privacy laws and better encryption of information.","authors":"Mark A Graber","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 2","pages":"79-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071667/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140121774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ethics of surrogate decision making.","authors":"Ben A Rich","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 2","pages":"127-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071685/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140121775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal implications of the Wendland case for end-of-life decision making.","authors":"Jon B Eisenberg, J Clark Kelso","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 2","pages":"124-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071696/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71490946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medications for smoking cessation.","authors":"Robin L Corelli, Karen Suchanek Hudmon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 2","pages":"131-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071687/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140873123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander R Green, J Emilio Carrillo, Joseph R Betancourt
{"title":"Why the disease-based model of medicine fails our patients.","authors":"Alexander R Green, J Emilio Carrillo, Joseph R Betancourt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 2","pages":"141-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071693/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140868587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victor J Stevens, Robert J Shneidman, Richard E Johnson, Myde Boles, Paul E Steele, Nancy L Lee
{"title":"Helicobacter pylori eradication in dyspeptic primary care patients: a randomized controlled trial of a pharmacy intervention.","authors":"Victor J Stevens, Robert J Shneidman, Richard E Johnson, Myde Boles, Paul E Steele, Nancy L Lee","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine the effectiveness of structured adherence counseling by pharmacists on the eradication of Helicobacter pylori when using a standard drug treatment regimen.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Randomized controlled clinical trial.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Nonprofit group-practice health maintenance organization (HMO).</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>HMO primary care providers referred 1,393 adult dyspeptic patients for carbon 14 urea breath testing (UBT).</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Those whose tests were positive for H pylori (23.3%) were provided a standard antibiotic regimen and randomly assigned to receive either usual-care counseling from a pharmacist or a longer adherence counseling session and a follow-up phone call from the pharmacist during drug treatment. All subjects were given the same 7-day course of omeprazole, bismuth subsalicylate, metronidazole, and tetracycline hydrochloride (OBMT). Dyspepsia symptoms were recorded at baseline and following therapy.</p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong>The main outcome was eradication of H pylori as measured by UBT at 3-month follow-up. Secondary outcomes were patient satisfaction and dyspepsia symptoms at 3-month follow-up.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 333 participants randomly assigned to treatment, 90.7% completed the 3-month follow-up UBT and questionnaires. Overall eradication rate with the OBMT regimen was 80.5% with no significant difference in eradication rates between the 2 groups (P=0.98). Conclusions In this study, additional counseling by pharmacists did not affect self-reported adherence to the treatment regimen, eradication rates, or dyspepsia symptoms but did increase patient satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 2","pages":"92-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071673/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140874293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Death--whose decision? Physician-assisted dying and the terminally ill.","authors":"Sharon I Fraser, James W Walters","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 2","pages":"120-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071682/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71432154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breast cancer characteristics of Vietnamese women in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area.","authors":"Scarlett S Lin, John C Phan, Albert Y Lin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To examine breast cancer characteristics of women of Vietnamese ancestry living in the San Francisco Bay Area in comparison with those of other racial or ethnic groups in the same area.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Data were obtained from the population-based Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, part of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program. We included breast cancer cases diagnosed from 1988 to 1999 and compared the age at diagnosis, stage and histologic grade at diagnosis, estrogen- and progesterone-receptor status, and surgery types across racial or ethnic groups. We also modeled the effect of patient and clinical characteristics and hospital and physician on the racial or ethnic variations in surgery type.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Vietnamese women were younger at diagnosis than other racial or ethnic subgroups (mean age, 51.0 years), with 49.6% of the diagnoses occurring in patients younger than 50. They were also significantly more likely to have received mastectomy for their in situ and localized tumors (61.1% having mastectomy) than women of other racial or ethnic groups. The increased likelihood of having mastectomy among Vietnamese women was not affected greatly by age, year of diagnosis, tumor stage, histologic grade, or physician, but was partly attributable to the hospital of diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The effects of a lower mean age at diagnosis and the reasons for an unexpectedly higher percentage of mastectomies in this Asian subgroup should be further explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"176 2","pages":"87-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071671/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140121773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}