OBJECTIVE To determine the acceptance and attitudes of family medicine physicians, clinical and nonclinical office staff, pharmacists, and patients during pharmacist integration into a medical home. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Pittsburgh, PA, area from August 2009 to June 2010. PARTICIPANTS Physicians, staff, pharmacists, and patients at four single-specialty family medicine office ...

Researchers have generally neglected sexual experiences of boys with adults, assumed them to be the same as those of girls, or tried to understand them by referring to clinical research while ignoring nonclinical research. A review of nonclinical research allows a more complete understanding of boys' sexual experiences with adults and the outcomes and correlates of those experiences. Research w...

BACKGROUND Obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is characterized by perfectionism, need for control, and cognitive rigidity. Currently, little neuropsychological data exist on this condition, though emerging evidence does suggest that disorders marked by compulsivity, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), are associated with impairment in cognitive flexibility and executive...

To evaluate the prevalence of central auditory disorder as a function of aging, we analyzed speech audiometric test results on 700 patients, 100 patients from each of seven half-decades beginning at age 50 years. In addition, we evaluated the extent to which prevalence estimates could be explained by the effect of hearing loss on measures of central auditory processing and the difference in pre...

One hundred and one patients with sustained unimorphic ventricular tachycardia underwent programmed ventricular stimulation with one of two protocols. Fifty patients underwent programmed stimulation with protocol A, which consisted of burst overdrive pacing, single, double, and triple extrastimuli at the right ventricular apex, right ventricular outflow tract, or septum, and then at the left ve...

Coupling intervals of extrastimuli that induced 57 previously documented unimorphic ventricular tachycardias (VTs) were compared with coupling intervals that induced 57 episodes of polymorphic VT or ventricular fibrillation (VF) in patients wlthout a documented or suspected history of polymorphic VT or VF. Programmed stimulation was performed with the patient in the drug-free state, with 1 to 3...

The experience of hallucinations is a hallmark of psychotic disorders, but they are also present in other psychiatric and medical conditions, and may be reported in nonclinical individuals. Despite the increased number of studies probing the incidence of nonclinical hallucinations, the underlying phenomenological characteristics are still poorly understood. This study aimed to examine the psych...

The Body Vigilance Scale (BVS) is a measure developed to assess one's conscious attendance to internal cues. The present report investigated the structure, correlates, and predictive utility of the BVS in nonclinical (N=442) and anxiety (N=135) disorder samples. The findings of Study 1 suggest that the BVS is 1-dimensional in a nonclinical sample, and Study 2 replicated the factor structure of ...