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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Diagnostic Errors"”.
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Systemic analysis and modelling of diagnostic errors in medicine
Diagnostic accuracy is an important index of the quality of health care service. Missed, wrong or delayed diagnosis has a direct effect on patient safety. Diagnostic errors have been discussed at length; however it still lacks a systemic research approach. This thesis takes the diagnostic process …
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Checklist of cognitive contributions to diagnostic errors: a tool for clinician-educators
… educators readily identify trainees with diagnostic reasoning difficulties but often lack training to diagnose and remediate errors. Taxonomies of cognitive causes of diagnostic errors can inform remediation, but clinician educators need simple tools to identify, record, report and provide …
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Total colonoscopy versus double-contrast barium enema for the detection of intraluminal lesions.
… fluoroscopic aid, greatly compromising the diagnostic accuracy of the results. The accuracy of the radiographic examination is highly dependent on equipment, as emphasised in literature and hence the limitation encountered in the radiology department is suggestive of significant number of …
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Impact of time pressure, as a stressor, on dentist’s diagnostic decision making.
… of time pressure, as a stressor, on dentists’ diagnostic performance when examining dental bitewing radiographs (Chapter 4). Results: The systematic search yielded 3535 citations, of which twelve were eligible for inclusion but they did not answer the research question; thereby demonstrating a …
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Perceptually Relevant Measurements in Tomosynthesis Imaging
… relate to abnormality detection performance and diagnostic errors. The first part of this thesis evaluates the relevance of noise power spectrum (NPS) based metrics in characterizing the DBT images and their relation to human observer diagnosis performance. The NPS based power-law exponent beta …
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De-Contextualised Risk Information in the Primary Care Consultation
… This process is susceptible to bias and diagnostic errors. One method employed to mitigate the risk of overlooking significant diagnoses is the use of routine clinical scores or risk assessment tools. These tools provide clinicians with information on potential high-risk diagnoses, often …
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Missed Breast Cancer Risk Factors and Clinicopathologic Features: A Six-Year Analysis of Data from a Single Institution
… However, cancers missed on screening and diagnostic imaging studies impede further reductions in mortality, necessitating scrutiny of common themes in these cases. OBJECTIVE: To investigate common characteristics of breast cancers missed on multimodality screening or diagnostic imaging at …