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Diagnostic errors in Dentistry, opinions of egyptian dental teaching staff, a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Diagnostic errors is a known problem in healthcare practice. Data on diagnostic errors in the dental field are extremely lacking. The objective of the study is to explore the perception of dental teaching staff about the prevalence of dental diagnostic errors in Egypt, identify the most...

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Autores principales: El-Wakeel, Naglaa, Ezzeldin, Naglaa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9764576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36539763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-022-02565-9
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description BACKGROUND: Diagnostic errors is a known problem in healthcare practice. Data on diagnostic errors in the dental field are extremely lacking. The objective of the study is to explore the perception of dental teaching staff about the prevalence of dental diagnostic errors in Egypt, identify the most commonly misdiagnosed dental conditions and point out the contributing factors and levels of patient harm. METHODS: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted on 151 dental teaching staff of Egyptian governmental and private universities. The questionnaire was distributed electronically via social media and messaging apps to dental staff members with at least five years of clinical experience to assess their opinion regarding the study objectives. Results were collected and statistically analyzed. RESULTS: 94.7% of participants believed that diagnostic errors represent an urgent problem, lecturers believed by 2.703 folds more than professors that diagnostic errors are an urgent problem The percentage of diagnostic errors was estimated to be < 20% and 20–40% by more than 90% of participants. The most commonly misdiagnosed conditions were oral mucosal lesions (83.4%), followed by temporomandibular joint and periodontal conditions (58.9%) for each. More than half of the participants (60.9%) believe that medical education methodology is one of the factors that lead to dental diagnosis errors. For the impact of errors on patients, 53% of participants reported moderate impacts followed by minor impact (37.7%) while 4.6% reported no impact and the same percentage reported major impact. CONCLUSION: This study with statistically significant results reported that dental diagnostic errors are frequent and need to be approached. Oral mucosal lesions, periodontal and temporomandibular joint diseases represent areas that include the most commonly seen errors. Further, besides the lack of resources, the dental education system and lack of proper training are the main causes of this problem. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12903-022-02565-9.
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spelling pubmed-97645762022-12-21 Diagnostic errors in Dentistry, opinions of egyptian dental teaching staff, a cross-sectional study El-Wakeel, Naglaa Ezzeldin, Naglaa BMC Oral Health Research BACKGROUND: Diagnostic errors is a known problem in healthcare practice. Data on diagnostic errors in the dental field are extremely lacking. The objective of the study is to explore the perception of dental teaching staff about the prevalence of dental diagnostic errors in Egypt, identify the most commonly misdiagnosed dental conditions and point out the contributing factors and levels of patient harm. METHODS: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted on 151 dental teaching staff of Egyptian governmental and private universities. The questionnaire was distributed electronically via social media and messaging apps to dental staff members with at least five years of clinical experience to assess their opinion regarding the study objectives. Results were collected and statistically analyzed. RESULTS: 94.7% of participants believed that diagnostic errors represent an urgent problem, lecturers believed by 2.703 folds more than professors that diagnostic errors are an urgent problem The percentage of diagnostic errors was estimated to be < 20% and 20–40% by more than 90% of participants. The most commonly misdiagnosed conditions were oral mucosal lesions (83.4%), followed by temporomandibular joint and periodontal conditions (58.9%) for each. More than half of the participants (60.9%) believe that medical education methodology is one of the factors that lead to dental diagnosis errors. For the impact of errors on patients, 53% of participants reported moderate impacts followed by minor impact (37.7%) while 4.6% reported no impact and the same percentage reported major impact. CONCLUSION: This study with statistically significant results reported that dental diagnostic errors are frequent and need to be approached. Oral mucosal lesions, periodontal and temporomandibular joint diseases represent areas that include the most commonly seen errors. Further, besides the lack of resources, the dental education system and lack of proper training are the main causes of this problem. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12903-022-02565-9. BioMed Central 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9764576/ /pubmed/36539763 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-022-02565-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9764576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36539763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-022-02565-9
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