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Missed diagnoses in the emergency department may happen to about one in 18 people, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality study led by David Newman-Toker at Johns Hopkins has found. Can that risk be minimized by bringing someone with …

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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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 Missed diagnosis in the emergency department aren’t common, but they do happen more often than we’d like, a recent federal study led by David Newman-Toker at Johns Hopkins has found. Newman-Toker says there are things you can do to help …

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Almost one in 18 people who visit an emergency department will not get a correct diagnosis, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality study led by David Newman-Toker at Johns Hopkins has found. Newman-Toker says there are things you can …

How can you help yourself avoid a missed diagnosis when you go to the emergency department? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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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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