Mental Health
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Apathy Persists After First Psychotic Episode
Major Finding: Ten years following their first psychotic episode, nearly one-third of patients experience enduring apathy, regardless of baseline...
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Ask Alzheimer's Patient Caregiver: Patch or Pill Therapy?
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Cancer Diagnosis Appears to Raise Suicide, Cardiovascular Risks
Major Finding: The rate of completed suicide was twice as high among adults with newly diagnosed cancer of any kind (0.36 per 1,000 person-years)...
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Diabetes Managed More Tightly in Demented Patients
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Single Question Flags Depression in Chronic Pain
Major Finding: Asking patients who have activity-limiting pain how much they’ve felt downhearted or depressed in the past 4 weeks identified...
Applied Evidence
How to recognize a patient who’s high on “bath salts”
Forget about a routine drug screen; it won’t help. Here’s how these patients will present and how best to care for them.
Applied Evidence
Torture survivors: What to ask, how to document
These immigrants are as numerous as patients with Parkinson’s disease, but they are unlikely to be forthcoming about their past. Here’s how to...
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Delirium Due to Medical Cause Often Misdiagnosed as Psychiatric Disorder
Major Finding: Almost one-quarter of the geriatric patients admitted to a psychiatric unit were found to have delirium due to underlying medical...
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Substance Abusers in Pain Tapered Off Opioids
Major Finding: Patients at high-risk for substance abuse had worse function compared with low-risk patients at the start of a 3-week...
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Monitoring Antipsychotic Side Effects Infrequent Among Dementia Patients
Major Finding: By 90 days, the proportion of patients who were monitored for glucose or HbA1c was 27% of both the dementia/delirium group and the...