Injuries initially misdiagnosed as sprained wrist (Beware the sprained wrist)
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Injuries initially misdiagnosed as sprained wrist (beware the sprained wrist).
OBJECTIVES To describe the injuries misdiagnosed as a sprain of the wrist and to determine the approximate incidence of misdiagnosis in patients diagnosed as having a sprain of the wrist. METHODS All diagnostic errors in an accident and emergency (A&E) department were noted on a computerised database. Injuries initially misdiagnosed as wrist sprain are described and compared with the number o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.19.1.41