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misdiagnosis
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Why you should be writing about diagnostic errors
Health care providers must do more to address the problem of diagnostic errors, according to leading researchers in the field…
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Women more often misdiagnosed because of gaps in trust and knowledge
Journalist, author, and editor Maya Dusenbery first became interested in why women are so often misdiagnosed about five years ago,…
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‘Conservative diagnosis’ means judicious testing to avoid potential harm
Balancing the challenges of underdiagnosis (missing or delaying important diagnoses) and overdiagnosis (labeling patients with diseases that may never cause…
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Conference among many efforts to reduce diagnostic errors
Every nine minutes, someone in a U.S. hospital dies due to a medical diagnosis that was wrong or delayed. This…