People with disabilities: a group prone to a diagnostic delay
Introduction Biases associated with specific populations, for example with female gender or particular ethnic groups, are well known and often
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Category: Clinical Reasoning
Case analysis under the concepts of Diagnostic Improvement, showing the cognitive and systemic biases implicated in a Diagnostic problem.
Reasoning on two clinical cases: similarities but looking for differences
Introduction We would like to present here two clinical cases with a very similar anatomical location, with a common apparent
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Clinical reasoning as a detective investigation exercise: syncope, lung cancer and immunotherapy
Objective We want to show in this clinical case the importance of the context and the existence of some difficult
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There are only possible diagnoses for Sherlock Holmes: When illnesses are rare
Objective There are three considerations to make in this clinical case, the first one the importance of listening to the
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A Clinical Case: Elevated Procalcitonin level in a cancer patient with an infection
Introduction Procalcitonin is a hormone synthesized in the neuroendocrine cells of the thyroid gland, and it is a precursor for
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The Young Doctors Reasoning and the Chinese Pharmacy
Opinion Article Objective There have been many papers describing the differences in clinical reasoning between young and more experienced professionals.
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