Search Results for: uncertainty

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019

Single Test to ARrive at Multiple Sclerosis (STAR-MS) diagnosis: A prospective pilot study assessing the accuracy of the central vein sign in predicting multiple sclerosis in cases of diagnostic uncertainty.

Publication date: Oct 31, 2019 Misdiagnosis is common in multiple sclerosis (MS) as a proportion of patients present with atypical clinical/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings. The central vein sign has ... Read more

August 9, 2019August 9, 2019

Disagreement and Uncertainty Among Experts About how to Respond to Marijuana Use in Patients on Long-term Opioids for Chronic Pain: Results of a Delphi Study.

Opioids Literature

Publication date: Aug 08, 2019 Marijuana use is common among patients on long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) for chronic pain, but there is a lack of evidence to guide clinicians’ response. ... Read more

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019

Decision Making in Multiple Sclerosis Care Under Uncertainty

Multiple Sclerosis News

Publication date: Jul 29, 2019 The main objectives of this study are: i) To determine patient-level, physician-level and health system factors influencing therapeutic decisions in multiple sclerosis (MS) care by ... Read more

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

Coping with Uncertainty When You Have Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis News

Publication date: Jul 17, 2019 Early on, there’s no way to predict how an individual’s disease will play out, and that uncertainty about the future is one of the most ... Read more

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019

A comparative study of uncertainty and coping strategies of patients with multiple sclerosis for members and nonmembers in peer groups.

Multiple Sclerosis Literature

Publication date: Jul 01, 2019 Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience a high level of uncertainty and face serious difficulty in coping effectively with their conditions. We compared the rate ... Read more

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019

Communicating uncertainty in cancer prognosis: A review of web-based prognostic tools.

Precision Medicine Literature

Publication date: May 01, 2019 Objective To review how web-based prognosis tools for cancer patients and clinicians describe aleatory (risk estimates) and epistemic (imprecision in risk estimates) uncertainties. Methods We ... Read more

March 16, 2019March 16, 2019

Balancing uncertainty with patient autonomy in precision medicine.

Precision Medicine Literature

Publication date: Mar 14, 2019 Pollard, S., Sun, S., and Regier, D.A. Balancing uncertainty with patient autonomy in precision medicine. 04233. 2019 Nat Rev Genet. Concepts Keywords Precision Medicine Precision ... Read more

November 24, 2018November 24, 2018

Managing uncertainty in Spitz Nevi melanoma

Melanoma Media

Publication date: Nov 23, 2018 Prof Vernon Sondak speaks with ecancer at the EADO 2018 congress in Barcelona about managing the uncertainty of Spitz Nevi melanoma. Prof Sondak explains that ... Read more

October 19, 2018October 19, 2018

Certainty within uncertainty: a qualitative study of the experience of metastatic melanoma patients undergoing pembrolizumab immunotherapy.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: Sep 04, 2018 Little is known about the lived experiences of patients with metastatic melanoma undergoing checkpoint inhibitor treatment. We conducted a feasibility study of a supportive care ... Read more

May 2, 2018May 2, 2018

Distress, uncertainty, and positive experiences associated with receiving information on personal genomic risk of melanoma.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: Apr 30, 2018 The aim of this research was to understand how genomics-based personal melanoma risk information impacts psychological and emotional health outcomes in the general population. In ... Read more