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Three strategies can help when you need emergency care, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Writing a summary of what’s going on for you and asking good questions may help you avoid a missed diagnosis when you come to an emergency department. That’s according to David Newman-Toker at Johns Hopkins and lead author of a …
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How can you help yourself get the best care when you go to an emergency department? Elizabeth Tracey reports
How can you help yourself avoid a missed diagnosis when you go to the emergency department? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Can diagnosis be improved using machine learning? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Artificial intelligence or machine learning looks like an attractive way to help physicians make diagnoses, especially when the person has unusual symptoms or doesn’t fit the usual demographic. Such situations account for many missed diagnoses among those who visited emergency departments …
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Can computer-assisted decision tools help reduce diagnostic errors? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Just shy of about 6% of people who visit an emergency department will not be correctly diagnosed, a federal agency study led by David Newman-Toker at Johns Hopkins has shown. Can computer-based decision support tools help bring that number down? …
Even though missed diagnoses are rare in the ED, we must still work to prevent them, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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About one in 18 people who visit an emergency department will receive an incorrect diagnosis, a study led by David Newman-Toker at Johns Hopkins for the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reveals. Newman-Toker says of that number, very …