Do GPs report diagnostic errors?

SHORT REPORT Wilson’s disease: diagnostic errors and clinical implications

Background: Therapeutic outcome of Wilson’s disease (WD) significantly depends upon its early recognition. However, because of its rarity in community and protean manifestations, the diagnosis and treatment are often delayed. Aim: To ascertain diagnostic errors at initial evaluation in these patients. Methods: Analysis of medical records of 307 patients of WD registered over 30 years was done r...

Effect of GPS errors on Emission model

In this paper we will show how Global Positioning Services (GPS) data obtained from smartphones can be used to model air quality in urban settings. The paper examines the uncertainty of smartphone location utilising GPS, and ties this location uncertainty to air quality models. The results presented in this paper indicates that the location error from using smartphones is within the accuracy ne...

Teaching for Reducing Diagnostic Errors.

Diagnostic errors, constituted by a missed, wrong, or delayed diagnosis detected later by additional tests or findings, are one of the most vexing issues in medicine. They are one of the commonest causes of patient- harm and also medical negligence claims. Although a variety of constructs have been proposed to explain diagnostic errors, the complex interplay of cognitive- and system-factors tha...

Outpatient Diagnostic Errors: Unrecognized Hyperglycemia

CASE DEFINITIONS. We identified all patients with abnormal test results suggestive of diabetes (i.e., hemoglobin [Hb] A1c ≥ 7.0% or plasma glucose ≥ 200 mg/dL) on one or more occasions. Patients were considered to have recognized diabetes if they had an ICD-9 diagnostic code for diabetes in the administrative database or a diagnosis mentioned in their medical record (on the basis of medical rec...

Diagnostic errors in medical practice.