A12 Ultrasonography for non-specific presentations of abdominal pain.
Finally, this study confirms the challenges that parents and clinicians face with diagnosing serious illnesses in children due to early non-specific presentations.
21 Research also suggests that a cancer diagnosis can be missed where there are: atypical presentations, non-specific presentations, very low prevalence rates, comorbidities and/or perceptual features.
It is thought that older patients with bactaeremic sepsis are more difficult to diagnose due to non-specific presentations such as fatigue, loss of appetite, falls, altered mental state, blunted febrile response [ 4, 5] and absence of leucocytosis [ 6, 7].
Early diagnosis followed by early initiation of appropriate antibiotics may improve the outcome in this population, but heterogeneous and non-specific presentations, also a lack of suspicion, often results in misinterpretation of symptoms [ 5] and delayed treatment.
In distinguishing the tiny number of children with serious illness from the vast majority with minor or self-limiting illness, clinicians are faced with early, non-specific presentations [ 2].
The study also suggests that routine diagnostic coding and information systems need to change to describe frail elderly patients better, in particular to include non-specific presentations and functional information, if they are to serve the needs of service planning and evaluation.
However, a relatively non-specific presentation means that influenza cannot be reliably distinguished from other ILI presenting in the autumn and winter seasons, and currently available diagnostic systems lack both the sensitivity and specificity required for efficient differentiation of ILI at the health facility or triage station [ 4].
Because of its rarity and its variable and non-specific presentation, the diagnosis of GCD depends mainly on imaging findings.
Its superficial topography may be suggestive of the diagnosis, but biopsy is often performed due to its non-specific presentation.
