JAK2V617F: you can't have too much

JAK2V617F: you can't have too much.

In this issue of Blood, Tiedt and colleagues use transgenic and retroviral models to demonstrate that the expression level of JAK2V617F plays an important role in determining myeloproliferative disease (MPD) phenotype.

Are you undercoding too much?

Dr. Jensen is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology. In addition to being a practicing nephrologist with Gulf Coast Kidney Associates, Sarasota, Fla, he is a certified professional coder (CPC) and works as a physician reimbursement consultant. He offers remote and onsite workshops and seminars designed to teach physicians how to apply the evaluation and management guidelines in da...

Does the impact factor have too much impact?

Margaret McCartney: Have we given guidelines too much power?

“Guidelines, not tramlines,” said David Haslam, chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), at its conference this year. Amen to that, but for those of us in primary care, how well do guidelines fit our patients? Guidelines should be a good idea. It’s impossible to keep on top of all new research, to assess its relevance, outcomes, and biases, and to systematically re...

How much is too much?

An investigation of the effect of the number of choice sets, starting point and the choice of bid vectors in choice experiments