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A case of availability bias for COVID‐19 causing scrub typhus diagnostic errors

Although patients with scrub typhus develop a maculopapular rash all over the body, patients with COVID‐19 may also show a similar rash. At the first visit, we did not fully inspect his trunk and extremities under his clothes. Although scrub typhus and COVID‐19 have some similar symptoms, an eschar...

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Autores principales: Ihara, Shiichi, Shikino, Kiyoshi, Ikusaka, Masatomi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34518788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.474
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author Ihara, Shiichi
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description Although patients with scrub typhus develop a maculopapular rash all over the body, patients with COVID‐19 may also show a similar rash. At the first visit, we did not fully inspect his trunk and extremities under his clothes. Although scrub typhus and COVID‐19 have some similar symptoms, an eschar is a characteristic symptom of the former, and careful inspection is important to distinguish between the diseases.[Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-84268182021-09-09 A case of availability bias for COVID‐19 causing scrub typhus diagnostic errors Ihara, Shiichi Shikino, Kiyoshi Ikusaka, Masatomi J Gen Fam Med Images in Clinical Medicine Although patients with scrub typhus develop a maculopapular rash all over the body, patients with COVID‐19 may also show a similar rash. At the first visit, we did not fully inspect his trunk and extremities under his clothes. Although scrub typhus and COVID‐19 have some similar symptoms, an eschar is a characteristic symptom of the former, and careful inspection is important to distinguish between the diseases.[Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8426818/ /pubmed/34518788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.474 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Journal of General and Family Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japan Primary Care Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_sort case of availability bias for covid‐19 causing scrub typhus diagnostic errors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426818/
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