Signs and Cause

Signs Volvulus of the stomach - an unusual cause of pulsus

A 48 year old man was referred to the Cardio-Thoracic Unit with a provisional diagnosis of an acute aortic dissection. He gave a history of sudden onset of severe upper abdominal pain radiating to the left shoulder, and had vomited twice. On initial questioning there was no history oftrauma, recent or remote, but he had undergone vagotomy and pyloroplasty 12 years previously for duodenal ulcer....

Root Cause and Error Analysis

Error is an inevitable part of life and cannot be completely eliminated, but it can be minimized. A root cause analysis is a technique for understanding the systematic error causes that is involved beyond a person or people to implement an errors and including field and environmental causes of errors when occur in this situation too. An important factor of an error occurrence is a root cause (c...

Predicting bacterial cause in infectious conjunctivitis: cohort study on informativeness of combinations of signs and symptoms.

OBJECTIVE To find an efficient set of diagnostic indicators that are optimally informative in the diagnosis of a bacterial origin of acute infectious conjunctivitis. DESIGN Cohort study involving consecutive patients. Results of index tests and reference standard were collected independently from each other. SETTING 25 Dutch health centres. PARTICIPANTS 184 adults presenting with a red ey...

Utility of signs and symptoms of chronic cough in predicting specific cause in children.

BACKGROUND Paediatricians rely on cough descriptors to direct them to the level of investigations needed for a child presenting with chronic cough, yet there is a lack of published data to support this approach. A study was undertaken to evaluate (1) whether historical cough pointers can predict which children have a specific cause for their cough and (2) the usefulness of chest radiography and...

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