Different communication strategies for disclosing a diagnosis of schizophrenia and related disorders.

Background: Delivering the diagnosis of a serious illness is an important skill in most fields of medicine, including mental health. Research has found that communication skills can impact on a person's recall and understanding of the diagnosis, treatment options and prognosis. People may feel confused and perplexed when information about their illness is not communicated properly.

Preliminary evaluation of a "formulation-driven cognitive behavioral guided self-help (fCBT-GSH)" for crisis and transitional case management clients.

Background: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is found to be effective for common mental disorders and has been delivered in self-help and guided self-help formats. Crisis and transitional case management (TCM) services play a vital role in managing clients in acute mental health crises. It is, therefore, an appropriate setting to try CBT in guided self-help format.

Trends of retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy use in patients with nonseminomatous germ cell tumor of the testis: a population-based study.

Background: Retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy (RPLND), chemotherapy, and active surveillance represent treatment options for patients with nonseminomatous germ-cell tumors of the testis (NSGCTT). Our objective was to assess the utilization rate of RPLND in patients with NSGCTT.

Methods: Within the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cohort, 4,620 and 1,671 patients with stage I and II NSGCTT were diagnosed between the years 1988 and 2006.

Impact of caseload on total hospital charges: a direct comparison between minimally invasive and open radical prostatectomy--a population based study.

Purpose: We tested the relationship between caseload and total hospital charges after stratifying by minimally invasive and open radical prostatectomy.

Materials And Methods: We evaluated 1,188 vs 3,354 men treated with minimally invasive vs open radical prostatectomy in the Florida Hospital Inpatients data file in 2008. Caseload was defined as the count of procedures performed by each surgeon between the study start on January 1, 2008 and the date of each procedure.

Tumor grade improves the prognostic ability of American Joint Committee on Cancer stage in patients with penile carcinoma.

Purpose: Penile cancer is rare. Thus, predicting cancer specific mortality may be difficult. We devised an accurate and yet easily applicable predictive rule that compares favorably with 2 previous models (73.

The impact of surgical experience on total hospital charges for minimally invasive prostatectomy: a population-based study.

Objective: • To evaluate the relationship between surgical volume (SV) and total hospital charges in patients undergoing minimally invasive radical prostatectomy (MIRP) for treatment of localized prostate cancer.

Patients And Methods: • Within the Florida Hospital Inpatient Datafile, 2666 men who were treated with MIRP for prostate cancer between 2002-2008 were identified. • The SV was defined in two ways: annual caseload (AC) and each surgeons experience (SE) defined as the total number of procedures performed since entering the study until the time of each MIRP.

Impact of surgical experience on in-hospital complication rates in patients undergoing minimally invasive prostatectomy: a population-based study.

Background: The relationship between provider volume and complication and transfusion rates in patients undergoing minimally invasive prostatectomy (MIRP) for prostate cancer has not been assessed. Temporal trends in MIRP annual surgical caseload (AC), impact of MIRP surgical experience (SE), and in-hospital complication and transfusion rates were evaluated.

Methods: Between 2002 and 2008, 2,666 patients in Florida underwent MIRP.

Annual surgical caseload and open radical prostatectomy outcomes: improving temporal trends.

Purpose: Radical prostatectomy is the standard of care for localized prostate cancer. Numerous previous reports show the relationship between surgical experience and various outcomes. We examined the effect of surgical experience on complications and transfusion rates, and determined individual surgeon annual caseload trends in a contemporary radical prostatectomy cohort.

A contemporary population-based assessment of the rate of lymph node dissection for penile carcinoma.

Background: The adherence rate to National Cancer Institute (NCI) recommendations regarding inguinal lymph nodes dissection (ILND) in high grade T1 (G3T1) and T2-4 squamous cell carcinoma of the penis (SCCP) is not known. We assessed ILND rates in a North American cohort.

Materials And Methods: The 17 registries of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database included 868 patients with SCCP, diagnosed between 1988 and 2006.

Capgras syndrome in postictal delirium.

A 34-year-old man with a seizure disorder had not been taking anticonvulsant medications regularly. A previous pattern of recurrent seizures resolved after restarting anticonvulsant drugs. Recent seizure episodes were followed by delirium and presentation of Capgras syndrome.