Patient cueing, a type of diagnostic error

Diagnostic failure can be due to a variety of psychological errors on the part of the diagnostician. An erroneous diagnosis rendered by previous clinicians can lead a diagnostician to the wrong diagnosis. This report is the case of a patient who misdiagnosed herself and then led an emergency room ph...

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Autor principal: Nichols, Larry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2016
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Article / Autopsy Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27284538
http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2016.023
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description Diagnostic failure can be due to a variety of psychological errors on the part of the diagnostician. An erroneous diagnosis rendered by previous clinicians can lead a diagnostician to the wrong diagnosis. This report is the case of a patient who misdiagnosed herself and then led an emergency room physician and subsequent treating physicians to the wrong diagnosis. This mechanism of diagnostic error can be called patient cueing.
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spelling pubmed-48804312016-06-09 Patient cueing, a type of diagnostic error Nichols, Larry Autops Case Rep Article / Autopsy Case Report Diagnostic failure can be due to a variety of psychological errors on the part of the diagnostician. An erroneous diagnosis rendered by previous clinicians can lead a diagnostician to the wrong diagnosis. This report is the case of a patient who misdiagnosed herself and then led an emergency room physician and subsequent treating physicians to the wrong diagnosis. This mechanism of diagnostic error can be called patient cueing. São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2016-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4880431/ /pubmed/27284538 http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2016.023 Text en Autopsy and Case Reports. ISSN 2236-1960. Copyright © 2016. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the article is properly cited.
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