A high level of fatigue among long-term survivors of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: results from the longitudinal population-based PROFILES registry in the south of the Netherlands.

The course of fatigue and quality of life in survivors of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is unknown. The aims of this study were, therefore, to assess fatigue and quality of life in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma following primary treatment, compare fatigue and quality of life in these patients with those of an age- and sex matched normative population to assess the severity of concerns and identify associations with fatigue of survivors who remained fatigued. The population-based Eindhoven Cancer Registry was used to select all patients diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from 1999-2009.

[Intestinal ischaemia caused by acute mesenteric vein thrombosis].

Acute mesenteric vein thrombosis is an uncommon cause of intestinal ischaemia, with a considerable morbidity and mortality rate. There is a delay in diagnosis owing to the fact that patients present with non-specific abdominal symptoms; there is often a low level of suspicion by the clinician. We discuss the case histories of a 23 year-old woman and a 49 year-old woman with intestinal ischaemia caused by acute mesenteric vein thrombosis.

Combined student ratings and self-assessment provide useful feedback for clinical teachers.

Many evaluation instruments have been developed to provide feedback to physicians on their clinical teaching but written feedback alone is not always effective. We explored whether feedback effectiveness improved when teachers' self-assessment was added to written feedback based on student ratings. 37 physicians (10 residents, 27 attending physicians) from different specialties (Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Neurology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, ENT, and Psychiatry) were invited to fill out a self-assessment questionnaire on their teaching skills.