Such a high rate of missed diagnoses would be regarded - by a medical test - as poor performance, indeed.

You report the rate of missed diagnoses found on autopsies to be 25 to 40 percent.

An illness "unseen" by some physicians is sometimes merely a missed diagnosis.

Experts who have studied appendicitis in recent years report that misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis are still all too common.

Some may ned to improve their diagnostic skills, for example one of the greatest missed diagnoses in those with chronic pain is depression.

Still, he's philosophical about the missed diagnosis.

To them, the missed diagnosis was unnerving.

Another factor, some experts said, is the risk of malpractice suits if a mistake or a missed diagnosis is exposed.

Among the problems uncovered were missed diagnoses, emergency room errors and medical and nursing mistakes.

Missed diagnosis can lead to serious, even life-threatening complications when an infected appendix is not removed soon after the symptoms develop.

Hospitals kill that many patients every year because of missed diagnoses, medication mishaps and other preventable errors.

Missed diagnoses.

It took her months of missed diagnoses and incorrect treatments before she finally saw a dermatologist who tackled her psoriasis.

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Some teachers made a special point of teaching cases where too much reliance on diagnostic tests had led to wrong treatment or overtreatment or missed diagnoses.

They are easily missed diagnoses in the presence of mild and chronic pericoronitis, and the latter may not be contributing greatly to the individual's pain.

While she may have an underlying medical problem, what you describe sounds a lot like depression, which is probably the most frequently missed diagnosis among people your mother's age.

An edition of ABC's Nightline featured a case he won for a woman who died after a missed diagnosis of breast cancer.

New Criteria The Rosacea Society sees a different problem: missed diagnoses or misdiagnosis of people who do have rosacea.

It's filled with hazards to your health, not least of which are the myriad infections, missed diagnoses, dosage mistakes and other complications that arise from human error.

Doctors seem to rely too heavily on radiological, laboratory and other diagnostic methods despite the persistent evidence of missed diagnoses and unanticipated complications revealed at autopsy.

Misdiagnosis or missed diagnoses may lead to lack of treatment or ineffective and potentially harmful treatment which may worsen the underlying causative disorder.

Reflecting on her illness and nearly missed diagnosis, she was philosophical: "We're taught that common things are common, and leptospirosis won't fit when you use that paradigm.

Others decide to fire their doctor after one heated episode - perhaps because of a missed diagnosis like Della Casa, a disagreeable interaction, or a health concern that was dismissed.

Unfortunately, accurate interpretation of heart sounds by primary care providers is fraught with error, leading to missed diagnosis of disease and/or excessive costs associated with evaluation of normal variants.