Patient Advocacy

DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY ASSURANCE® The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Assurance (AHRQ) has approved the Diagnostic Quality Assurance ® (DQA) listing as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) by the Secretary of the Department of Health...

When serum protein biomarker data were used independently, clinical sensitivity and specificity for detection of breast cancer were 74.7% and 77.0%, respectively. When tumor-associated autoantibody data were used independently,...

There is an interesting article in this month's AMA Journal of Ethics by Drs. Crane and Gardner on the use of pathology images in social media. The authors introduce the article in their abstract as "There is a rising interest in the use of...

We are all busy, and I’m not different. Between busy clinical schedules, travel for work and pleasure, the Spring and Summer are a blur. But there’s nothing like voices from your past to force you to take a pause. I’ve recently received...

Excellent blog at cancer.net by Dr. Nassar, a professor of pathology at Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville.  Aziza and I were residents together and worked together at Mayo Clinic -Rochester.  She has always been a strong patient advocate, always...

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