That radiologist, who has left the hospital, was accused by colleagues in a lawsuit of missing diagnoses because he read images too fast or not at all.
You report the rate of missed diagnoses found on autopsies to be 25 to 40percentt.
Malpractice files are replete with cases of missed diagnoses of aortic dissection.
For all other diagnoses, such a reduction in the number of missed diagnoses was not found.
We were unable to estimate the number of missed diagnoses or delays in management of complications in the restrictive CXR group because only two studies [ 15, 22] had a surveillance strategy for these patients.
Microscopic pathologic examination of these specimens is costly, but neglecting this step may miss diagnoses of significant diseases, especially malignancies.
The prevalence of HIV/AIDS is a burden on the nation's health care system, yet the figures probably underestimate the real magnitude of the epidemic because of underreporting, inadequate resources for HIV testing, and missed diagnoses.
A rapid point-of-care test (POCT) could reduce lead times and missed diagnoses.
aSubgroups may not total to 3998 because of missing values b No distal colorectal neoplasia diagnosed at FS cIncluding 8 cases of screening detected CRC dAll variables are specified in the Additional file 1 aAdjusted for gender, age, bmi, smoking habits, total score for exercise, total consumption of vegetables, fruit and berries, boiled potatoes, poultry, other meat than poultry and fatty fish.
Overall, patients with autopsy confirmation of premortem clinical diagnoses were not significantly different from those with missed diagnoses (p = 0.11).
