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When you look at the rates of missed diagnoses in various emergency departments, they’re lowest in academic medical centers. That’s according to the latest Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality study led by David Newman-Toker at Johns Hopkins. Newman-Toker: If …
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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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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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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? …
