Diagnostic error in Europe: who,s who?
The Diagnostic error movement started in USA lead by Dr. Mark Graber and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.
Read Moreex-juvantibus: dyspnea, neutropenia, corticoids
A 65-year-old female patient had a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He went to the hospital with fever, neutropenia and dyspnea
Read MoreDiagnosis of cutaneous tumors in HIV infection
Kaposi sarcoma and HIV is a very well known association. But there are others cutaneous malignancies with an increased incidence
Read MoreWould you send your patient to palliative care?
The decision to transfer a chronic patient to a palliative care unit is not easy for most of the doctors. What
Read MorePattern recognition or Patient recognition?: a real clinical improvement
The Diagnostic Improvement theory is based in the assumption that two factors are involved in a diagnostic failure, the system,
Read MoreStudents exercise: the mind and the machine
We have discussed the clinical findings from a patient diagnosed of ovarian cancer. The patient stayed at the hospital due
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