Clonal origin of trisomy for chromosome 7 in the epithelial compartment of colon neoplasia |
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Authors: | J Herbergs JW Arends EM Bongers FC Ramaekers AH Hopman |
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Affiliation: | Psychiatry Research, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. |
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Abstract: | To examine primary care physician recognition of hypochondriacal patients, we identified a series of such patients in a general medicine clinic using the Whiteley Index. Clinic physicians made blind global ratings of severity of physical disease and unreasonable fear of illness (hypochondriasis) and completed a checklist of somatizing characteristics. Patient records were audited for diagnoses, laboratory tests, consultations, and medications prescribed. Twenty-nine (14%) of 210 patients scored above an established cutoff on the Whiteley Index. These hypochondriacal patients were rated by clinic physicians as more hypochondriacal and were more often given psychiatric diagnoses. Also, clinic physicians identified more somatizing features among hypochondriacal patients including their own reaction to them. This recognition of hypochondriac characteristics may have contributed to better management but may need to be raised to the diagnostic level for maximum benefit. |
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