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April 29, 2020 - How could this happen, especially in regard to a life-threatening diagnosis? … In this era of sub-specialization of medicine and surgery, diagnoses tend to be assigned to the care … begin, a health system can create guidelines for emergency department consultations, built around
diagnoses … physician (i.e., a
senior resident or attending) see all or certain consults may help ensure that critical diagnoses … In addition, establishing ‘time to treatment’ quality metrics for critical diagnoses like
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February 24, 2011 - Do physicians know when their diagnoses are correct? … Do physicians know when their diagnoses are correct? … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/do-physicians-know-when-their-diagnoses-are-correct-implications-decision … senior residents, and faculty to explore the relationship
between physicians' confidence in making a diagnosis … and whether the diagnosis was correct.
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January 31, 2024 - April 28, 2021
WebM&M Cases
Delayed Breast Cancer Diagnosis … December 2, 2020
COVID-19: making the right diagnosis. … July 12, 2023
Improving diagnosis: adding context to cognition. … Root Cause Analysis
February 26, 2025
Interventions to improve timely cancer diagnosis … Patient Safety Innovations
Ambulatory Safety Nets to Reduce Missed and Delayed Diagnoses
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May 23, 2018 - How health care changes when algorithms start making
diagnoses. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-health-care-changes-when-algorithms-start-making-diagnoses
Use of artificial … intelligence and computer algorithms as tools to improve diagnosis have both risks and
benefits. … This magazine article reports on how computer-assisted diagnosis can support accuracy and
enable physicians … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-health-care-changes-when-algorithms-start-making-diagnoses
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October 23, 2012 - Cognitive errors and logistical breakdowns contributing
to missed and delayed diagnoses of breast and … Cognitive errors and logistical breakdowns contributing to missed
and delayed diagnoses of breast and … This study analyzed 56 missed or delayed cancer diagnoses and found that virtually all cases involved … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/errors-cancer-diagnosis-current-understanding-and-future-directions
https … ://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-can-we-make-diagnosis-safer
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/missing-clinical-information-during-primary-care-visits
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September 20, 2023 - strategies such as behavioral design, internet use, and prehospital practice play a role in the timing of
diagnosis … understanding-and-addressing-pre-hospital-diagnostic-delays
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/missed-and-delayed-diagnoses-ambulatory-setting-study-closed-malpractice-claims … failure-follow-test-results-ambulatory-patients-systematic-review
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/crowdsourcing-diagnosis-patients-undiagnosed-illnesses-evaluation-crowdmed
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September 07, 2022 - Download Citation
Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Improving diagnosis … August 4, 2021
COVID-19: making the right diagnosis. … View More
Related Resources
Correlates of missed or late versus timely diagnosis … October 2, 2024
Stakeholder perspectives on contributors to delayed and inaccurate diagnosis … June 12, 2024
Reducing the risk of delayed colorectal cancer diagnoses through an ambulatory
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December 08, 2021 - Diagnosis (Berl). 2020;7(3):251-256. doi:10.1515/dx-2019-0110. … Diagnosis (Berl) . 2020; 7 (3) :251-256 .
View more articles from the same authors. … Diagnosis (Berl). 2020;7(3):251-256. doi:10.1515/dx-2019-0110. … Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Antecedent treat-and-release diagnoses … perspective-taking on challenging premature closure after pediatric ICU physicians receive hand-off with the wrong diagnosis
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May 01, 2017 - Severe pain unrelieved with intravenous morphine
Worsening tachycardia
Elevated creatinine
Other diagnoses … Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. … protocols may reduce the risk of error
Ensuring providers consistently develop thorough differential diagnoses … Facilitate cognition by enhanced organization and display of information
Aid generation of different diagnoses … to reduce diagnostic error could include methods to encourage deliberate reasoning and differential diagnoses
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December 19, 2018 - Diagnosis (Berl). 2018;5(4):215-222.
doi:10.1515/dx-2018-0083. … patient-groups-clinicians-and-healthcare-professionals-agree-all-test-results-
need-be-seen
Inadequate test result follow-up places patients at risk of delayed diagnosis … patient-safety-concerns-arising-test-results-return-after-hospital-discharge
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/missed-and-delayed-diagnoses-ambulatory-setting-study-closed-malpractice-claims … failure-follow-test-results-ambulatory-patients-systematic-review
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/delayed-diagnosis-endocrinologic-emergencies
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January 02, 2000 - Missed diagnoses of acute cardiac ischemia in the
emergency department. … Missed diagnoses of acute cardiac ischemia in the emergency
department. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/missed-diagnoses-acute-cardiac-ischemia-emergency-department
Missed or … delayed diagnosis of cardiovascular disease can lead to adverse patient outcomes. … /issue/missed-diagnosis-new-onset-systolic-heart-failure-first-presentation-children-no-known-heart
https
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July 03, 2014 - Prominent among
these is availability bias, when clinicians choose the most available diagnosis—the … series of diagnosed cases, then given cases with similar symptoms and asked to
record their provisional diagnoses … AHRQ WebM&M
commentary discusses reflective practice and other methods of avoiding cognitive error in diagnosis … ://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/diagnostic-errors
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/importance-cognitive-errors-diagnosis-and-strategies-minimize-them
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September 12, 2018 - Patient-initiated second opinions: systematic review of characteristics and impact on diagnosis … Patient Safety Innovations
Ambulatory Safety Nets to Reduce Missed and Delayed Diagnoses … Quality
April 26, 2023
WebM&M Cases
Delayed Diagnosis … October 9, 2013
Root cause analysis reports help identify common factors in delayed diagnosis … September 12, 2012
Quality in cancer diagnosis.
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April 08, 2011 - Medical diagnoses commonly associated with pediatric
malpractice lawsuits in the United States. … Medical diagnoses commonly associated with pediatric
malpractice lawsuits in the United States. … Cognitive error on the part of
physicians may contribute to misdiagnosis for these diagnoses. … A delayed diagnosis of meningitis is discussed in an AHRQ WebM&M
commentary. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/importance-cognitive-errors-diagnosis-and-strategies-minimize-them
https
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March 04, 2015 - To assess the accuracy of both radiologic and pathologic diagnoses, this study directly compared
diagnoses … Interestingly,
the authors found cases where autopsies missed diagnoses that had been previously noted … on imaging
tests, as well as cases where the premortem radiologic diagnosis proved to be incorrect … The
authors advocate for routinely comparing pathologic and radiologic diagnoses as a mutual quality … An autopsy diagnosis that was missed on an initial radiograph is discussed in this
AHRQ WebM&M commentary
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April 09, 2013 - /psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/types-and-origins-diagnostic-errors-primary-care-settings
Making an accurate diagnosis … An AHRQ WebM&M commentary examines the role of faulty data synthesis in a delayed diagnosis of
peripheral … types-and-origins-diagnostic-errors-primary-care-settings
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/diagnostic-errors
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/challenges-making-diagnosis-outpatient-setting-multi-site-survey-primary-care-physicians … electronic-health-record-based-surveillance-diagnostic-errors-primary-care
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/missed-and-delayed-diagnoses-ambulatory-setting-study-closed-malpractice-claims
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March 30, 2011 - inaccuracies-assignment-clinical-stage-localized-prostate-cancer
For many types of cancer, the extent of disease at diagnosis … Diagnostic errors have also been documented in the pathologic
diagnosis of cancer. … diagnostic-errors
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/clinical-impact-and-frequency-anatomic-pathology-errors-cancer-diagnoses … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/clinical-impact-and-frequency-anatomic-pathology-errors-cancer-diagnoses
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November 18, 2016 - From the Same Author(s)
The multidisciplinary approach to GI cancer results in change of diagnosis … Multidisciplinary care impacts diagnosis and management of patients. … August 17, 2022
WebM&M Cases
Coming up for Err: Missed Diagnosis … 2020
Association of low-dose whole-body computed tomography with missed injury diagnoses … April 21, 2011
Delayed or missed diagnosis of cervical spine injuries.
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November 02, 2011 - researchers found that the way in which cases were presented had a significant impact on the differential diagnoses … June 22, 2011
Outcomes of missed diagnosis of pediatric appendicitis, new-onset diabetic … April 26, 2023
WebM&M Cases
Delay in Appropriate Diagnosis … Embolism
February 10, 2021
Ten principles for more conservative, care-full diagnosis … From Previous Providers
March 1, 2014
Utility of clinical examination in the diagnosis
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November 01, 2016 - Identify obstetric hemorrhage when it is concealed or obscured by other obstetric diagnoses such as … Concealed hemorrhage in the context of additional
pregnancy diagnoses that mask some of the key signs … Examples
of confounding diagnoses include preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy … contemplate a full set of differential diagnoses) and not focus on a specific diagnosis. … Postpartum hemorrhage—update on problems of definitions and diagnosis.