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Review essay on Mayo Clinic website
Grand Canyon University
ENG-105: English Composition 1
June 27, 2022
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The Mayo Clinic on ADHD
The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization started in 1880 in Rochester, Minnesota with
an expansion to 2 states in Arizona and Florida over the course of years with over sixty-three
thousand employees. According to U. S. News & World Report, Mayo Clinic is ranked the
number one hospital in the U.S. with the top-ranked in fourteen specialties (Mayo Clinic, 2022).
Being the top rank in the country they also conduct research on adult and child attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder which are characterized by levels of inattention, hyperactivity and
impulsiveness that can lead to problems (Anne-Lise J. H., et al., 2022). Problems that are
recognized like fidgeting, inability to relax, restlessness, focusing on a task, watching a movie,
irritation, and doing something impulsive
(Ulusoy, V., & Bilican, F. I. 2022)
. Mayo Clinic put
together a very well description of the authority, accuracy, and currency of the website on
ADHD.
Authority
Authority was utilized to recognize who is the author, who can be contacted, and have
proper credentials to even research and write about ADHD. This website has a large set of
authors that is a combination of chief and specialty medical editors that have their master’s and
their Ph.D. in a specific field of study. The fastest way to locate any of the medical editors you
have to navigate to the top of the page and click on the search bar and type “about this site” and
click enter. The page search results should pop up but you are only going to pick the first search
that says “about this site-Mayo Clinic”.
Under the category “Who we are” select “Meet our medical editors” the next page will
show a listing of who is the medical editors by name, what field of study they are in, and if they
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work with adults, children, or both. Readers can contact the doctors if they are existing patients
through a patient portal or request an appointment to become a patient.
Searching for a provider that can diagnose and treat ADHD is a simple process. In the
search bar on top of the webpage type in “ADHD” and press enter. The top two results are for the
user to choose from which are Adult and Children ADHD. Depending on the user’s situation they
can click on either of them to give the reader a very descriptive overview of both Adult and
Children ADHD. At the top of the page, there are three tabs the reader can select that give them
an overview of symptoms & causes, diagnosis & treatment, and doctors & departments. The
doctors and departments tab will display doctors who treat conditions with a description area of
focus they study and the user can make an appointment with that doctor.
Accuracy
Accuracy targets the questions who is the publisher and/ or webmaster, what is the
website domain, what institution are they and what qualifications do the publishers have? Mayo
Clinic is a nonprofit organization that accepts donations and gifts to help fund its research. The
president and chief executive officer of Mayo Clinic is the publisher who collects all medical
editors’ research and posts it on the website which the URL is .org for an organization (Mayo
Clinic, 2022).
To find a publisher’s qualifications you can search the list under the tab “About
this site”, under “Who we are", and select “Meet our medical editors”, where the user can find all
the doctors with their credentials and qualifications. Another way to find a specific doctor is to
search for the symptoms, select the proper result, and under the title with three tabs select
“doctors & departments”. The user can see the doctor who can treat that specific condition
showing their qualifications under “AREAS OF FOCUS:”.
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Currency
Currency refers to when the website was up to date, when the content was written and
published, and when was the last update.
Mayo Clinic did an update on June 22, 2019, about a
three-year gap in which the content was published and last updated. The Mayo Clinic does a
good job providing up-to-date information on the website helping others who want help or to be
educated. Therefore, all links that are attached to the website are active and updated whenever
possible.
Conclusion
The Mayo Clinic did a great job of presenting the information with direct facts to families
and caregivers about adult and childhood ADHD. They have prepared the information in a
nonbiased view and people are able to sign up to request to see a physician online easily with a
click of a button. In the interest of authority, accuracy, and currency the website is a good
educational tool and resource for finding information on ADHD.
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References
Anne-Lise Juul Haugan, Anne Mari Sund, Susan Young, Per Hove Thomsen, Stian Lydersen, &
Torunn Stene Nøvik. (2022). Cognitive behavioural group therapy as addition to
psychoeducation and pharmacological treatment for adolescents with ADHD symptoms
and related impairments: a randomised controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry, 22(1), 1–18.
https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04019-6
Mayo Clinic, (2022). ADHD. Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Attention-
deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children – Symptoms and causes- Mayo Clinic
Ulusoy, V., & Bilican, F. I. (2022). Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adult Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder: A Narrative Review. Current Approaches in Psychiatry /
Psikiyatride Guncel Yaklasimlar, 14(3), 383–399.
https://doi
org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.18863/pgy.1017886
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