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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? …

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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 …

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Your chance of having a diagnosis missed when you visit an emergency department is 5.7%, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality study led by David Newman-Toker at Johns Hopkins has found. Newman-Toker says further analysis revealed the kinds of …

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When you go to an emergency department are you concerned that your health issue won’t be properly diagnosed? A study by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality led by David Newman-Toker at Johns Hopkins has found the actual …

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