Diagnosing childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Do family practitioners and pediatricians make the same call?
Regardless of specialty, size of community, or distance from mental health services, physicians in this study did not differ in the diagnosis or treatment of ADHD in response to hypothetical cases. Pediatricians reported using DSM-IV criteria in their practices when making diagnoses more often than family physicians.
ECL assays improved the ability to predict time to diabetes in these autoantibody-positive relatives at risk for developing diabetes. These findings might be helpful in the design and eligibility criteria for prevention trials in the future.