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A method to identify pediatric high-risk diagnoses missed in the emergency department.
August 8, 2018
Sundberg M, Perron CO, Kimia A, et al. Diagnosis (Berl). 2018;5(2):63-69.
In the Improving Diagnosis report, the National Academy of Medicine called for broad-scale efforts to reduce diagnostic errors. This retrospective cohort study employed natural language processing to identify dangerous diagnoses that pediatric emergency medicine physicians missed. A past WebM&M commentary laid out challenges in classifying diagnostic errors.
