November 9, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Nov. 2, 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 […]
Tags: Archives of Internal Medicine, Better Homes & Gardens, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Chicago Tribune, Clinical Endocrinology News, Daily Titan Calif., Debbie Cooper, diabetes, Dr. • Better Homes & Garden, Dr. Lynne Shuster, Dr. Michael Joyner
May 21, 2012
Palliative Care Intervention by Nurse Practitioner Improves Life for Cancer Patients
Most cancer patients also do not have advance directives addressed and are not aware of the benefits of hospice services. In order to address this issue, researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida decided to test whether a nurse practitioner-driven consultation that used quality-of-life assessment tools and advance directives tools resulted in improvement in the cancer […]
Tags: Dr. Gerardo Colon-Otero, quality of life, Senior Journal