Cognitive Bias. Upper Urinary Tract Infection: A Dark Drawer?
Diagnosis: a matter of a thousand looks Clinical Case A 81-years-old woman with several diagnoses( cardiac failure, atrial fibrillation,
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Tag: cognitive bias
More is not always better
A 70-year-old patient was admitted with neutropenia, moderate thrombocytopenia, and fever, following chemotherapy. starting with antibiotics until normalization of neutrophils.
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Bone findings in cancer patients mimicking metastases (2)
Bone lesions in cancer patients must be identified as malignant or benign due to the important prognostic and therapeutic implications. Benign bone
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Diagnostic error and the accident theory
Diagnostic errors are an important aspect of the Patient Safety movement, but their relationship with the Quality Improvement world is
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Crossing the midline: an explanation for a bias
CLINICAL CASE: A 69-year-old woman without previous disease presented to the Emergency Room (ER) with an acute left hemiparesis, dysarthria
Read MoreConfirmation bias: an expert missing a spinal cord compression
A 75-year-old woman had a recent diagnosis of disseminated endometrial cancer. She had a previous diagnosis of poliomyelitis with muscular atrophy
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