Cystic changes at supraspinatus and infraspinatus tendon insertion sites: association with age and rotator cuff disorders in 238 patients.

Purpose: To retrospectively determine the frequency of posterior and anterior cystic abnormalities at rotator cuff insertion site on the greater tuberosity and to determine their relationship to patient age and rotator cuff disorders.

Materials And Methods: Institutional review board approval was given; informed consent was waived. The study was HIPAA compliant.

Predictors of short-term success of antiretroviral therapy in HIV infection.

Objectives: The success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in HIV infection may be influenced by numerous host factors. There is a lack of data presenting a combined assessment of a variety of these parameters for treatment efficacy in clinical routine practice.

Methods: Different indices of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) were evaluated prospectively in the context of self-reported adherence, health-related quality of life and social determinants, as measured by a questionnaire.

Performance of clinician versus self-report measures to identify obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents.

Objective: The aim of this study was to study agreement between clinician-rated measures and self-report measures previously used in epidemiologic studies to identify obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in youth and to determine the adequacy of self-report measures as screening instruments.

Method: Leyton Obsessional Inventory-Child Version (LOI-CV) survey form self-report and Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) clinician-report measures were compared in a sample of 81 OCD-affected youths diagnosed using structured diagnostic interviews and the best-estimate method. Sensitivities and agreement between tests are determined for different cutoff scores.