Prodiagnosis / Foro Osler

Diagnostic accuracy: sailing for remote islands?

Physicians` diagnostic accuracy has been estimated around 55% for easy cases and 6% for difficult cases before a definitive diagnosis

Physicians are reluctant to admit some uncomfortable truth, but the statistic is clear..

Some skeletal problems in Medicine are detected with simple radiology but also important situations could be missed if there is

Diagnosis improvement is a key aspect of patient safety. However this important field is not teaching in medical schools neither

Papers and personal experiences have been dealing with the fears, expectations and feelings associated to a diagnosis. In this short

When in medical practice we speak about “Diagnosis” we think about the exact moment where the problem in a patient