Items Tagged ‘Journal of Clinical Oncology’
January 31, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations Modern Healthcare Symptoms, diagnosis and a prescription: How […]
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October 19, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations Wall Street […]
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October 18, 2012
Tool Reveals Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Patient Burden
Researchers have devised a tool to accurately assess the extent of symptoms in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). The MPN Symptom Assessment Form total symptom score (MPN-SAF TSS) is an efficient, sensitive, and reliable method for symptom assessment in patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV), or myelofibrosis, say Ruben Mesa (Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, […]
Tags: Dr. Ruben Mesa, Journal of Clinical Oncology, MPN Symptom Assessment Form, MPNs, myeloproliferative neoplasms, News Medical
May 8, 2012
Wrong Diagnoses Cost Money and Lives
The issue? Misdiagnosis. But I’m willing to bet that if you asked most people about it, they still wouldn’t fully understand what you meant. A few timely facts to help illustrate: the Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that 26 percent of medical intensive care cases were misdiagnosed, while the Journal of Clinical Oncology found up to […]
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April 29, 2012
Misdiagnosis: Millions of Patients Are Being Treated For the Wrong Conditions
We read and hear a lot of headlines about health-care reform and related costs and hurdles. What we hear a lot less of, though, is misdiagnosis and why correcting the situation should be made a priority. Despite our “latest and greatest” technologies, 15 percent of all medical cases in developed countries are misdiagnosed, according to […]
Tags: Journal of Clinical Oncology, misdiagnosis, The American Journal of Medicine
March 30, 2012
Mayo Clinic in News Weekly Highlights
March 30, 2012 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations oestreich.karl@mayo.edu […]
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