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Missed injuries in trauma patients: a literature review.
Pfeifer R, Pape HC. Patient Saf Surg. 2008;2:20.

This review found that missed injuries and delayed diagnoses occur frequently, with many of the missed injuries being clinically significant. The authors call for standardized studies using comparable definitions of such injuries.
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