A method to identify pediatric high-risk diagnoses missed in the emergency department.
Sundberg M, Perron CO, Kimia A, et al. A method to identify pediatric high-risk diagnoses missed in the emergency department. Diagnosis (Berl). 2018;5(2):63-69. doi:10.1515/dx-2018-0005.
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.