Overcoming diagnostic errors in medical practice.

Brett J. Bordini; Alyssa Stephany; Robert M. Kliegman

Commentary

Overcoming diagnostic errors in medical practice.

May 24, 2017

Bordini BJ, Stephany A, Kliegman RM. J Pediatr. 2017;185.

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This commentary describes a program developed to evaluate patients with undiagnosed and rare diseases as a way to reduce diagnostic error. The authors explain heuristic and clinical reasoning shortcomings that can hinder diagnosis and how to manage them through improved information gathering and hypothesis testing.

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