Diagnostic Errors

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A bad day for quality control: sequential misplacement of left arm and left leg electrodes. 
  • A case of mistaken identity: persistent sciatic artery stenosis as a cause of critical limb ischemia. 
  • A multicenter analysis of the ED diagnosis of pneumonia. 
  • A multiobserver study of the effects of including point-of-care patient photographs with portable radiography: a means to detect wrong-patient errors. 
  • A new computer program for analysis of scalar electrocardiograms. 
  • Accounting for nonignorable verification bias in assessment of diagnostic tests. 
  • Accuracy and interobserver variability of coronary cineangiography: a comparison with postmortem evaluation. 
  • Acute detection of ST-elevation myocardial infarction missed on standard 12-Lead ECG with a novel 80-lead real-time digital body surface map: primary results from the multicenter OCCULT MI trial. 
  • Acute pubic osteomyelitis. 
  • Adenoma mimicking hyponatremia of SIAD. 
  • Adenosine deaminase type 2 deficiency masquerading as GATA2 deficiency: Successful hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • An analysis of the causes of adverse events from the Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • Angiographic validation of the American College of Cardiology Foundation-the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Collaboration on the Comparative Effectiveness of Revascularization Strategies study. 
  • Are en face frozen sections accurate for diagnosing margin status in melanocytic lesions? 
  • Basal cell carcinoma originating from a nevus sebaceus on the scalp of a 7-year-old boy. 
  • CT utilization: the emergency department perspective. 
  • Carcinoembryonic antigen as an adjunct to determination of clinical stage in prostate cancer. 
  • Carcinoma of the larynx and hypopharynx: computed tomographic-histopathologic correlations. 
  • Cardiac imaging impaired by a silicone breast implant. 
  • Causes of errors in polyp detection at air-contrast barium enema examination. 
  • Children with appendicitis on the US-Mexico border have socioeconomic challenges and are best served by a freestanding children's hospital. 
  • Clinical diagnostic reasoning. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Index of suspicion. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Taken out of context. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Undercover and overlooked. 
  • Clinical problem-solving: costly errors. 
  • Cognitive errors and logistical breakdowns contributing to missed and delayed diagnoses of breast and colorectal cancers: a process analysis of closed malpractice claims. 
  • Common Resident Errors When Interpreting Computed Tomography of the Abdomen and Pelvis: A Review of Types, Pitfalls, and Strategies for Improvement. 
  • Comparison of optical coherence tomography in diabetic macular edema, with and without reading center manual grading from a clinical trials perspective. 
  • Complications of nonoperative and operative treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. 
  • Computer-aided detection of peripheral lung cancers missed at CT: ROC analyses without and with localization. 
  • Conflict of interest disclosures. 
  • Controlled evaluation of BacT/Alert standard aerobic and FAN aerobic blood culture bottles for detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Cutaneous Angiosarcoma of the Eyelid Mimicking Morbihan Disease. 
  • Cytologic features of adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified, in conventional smears: comparison of cases that performed poorly with those that performed well in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Cytologic features of squamous cell carcinoma in conventional smears: comparison of cases that performed poorly with those that performed well in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Cytomegalovirus sialadenitis in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a potential diagnostic pitfall with fine-needle aspiration cytology. 
  • Decompression illness diagnosis and decompression study design. 
  • Defining treatment-resistant depression: a comprehensive review of the literature. 
  • Detecting glaucoma progression from localized rates of retinal changes in parametric and nonparametric statistical framework with type I error control. 
  • Detection of dyslipoproteinemia with the use of plasma total cholesterol and triglyceride as screening tests. The Lipid Research Clinics Program Prevalence Study. 
  • Dexamethasone suppression test for depression. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy of histopathologic and cytopathologic examination of Aspergillus species. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy of noninvasive fetal Rh genotyping from maternal blood--a meta-analysis. 
  • Early undifferentiated connective tissue disease (CTD). VI. An inception cohort after 10 years: disease remissions and changes in diagnoses in well established and undifferentiated CTD. 
  • Effect of cardiac cycle on ultrasound assessment of endothelial function. 
  • Effect of improper scan alignment on retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measurements using Stratus optical coherence tomograph. 
  • Effect of signal strength and improper alignment on the variability of stratus optical coherence tomography retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measurements. 
  • Erroneous electrocardiogram recordings because of switched electrode leads. 
  • Errors in surgical neuropathology and the influence of cognitive biases: the psychology of intelligence analysis. 
  • Estimating deaths from cardiovascular disease: a review of global methodologies of mortality measurement. 
  • Estimating overdiagnosis in lung cancer screening--reply. 
  • Ethnic variability in retinal vessel caliber: a potential source of measurement error from ocular pigmentation?--the Sydney Childhood Eye Study. 
  • Evaluating Resident On-Call Performance: Does Volume Affect Discrepancy Rate? 
  • Evaluation of dysphonic patients by general otolaryngologists. 
  • Evidence-based decision support for neurological diagnosis reduces errors and unnecessary workup. 
  • Exploring the potential of context-sensitive CADe in screening mammography. 
  • Factors That Predict Satisfaction With Medical Care: Data From 27,212 Injured Workers Surveyed for 14 Years. 
  • False FHL: a normal variant posing risks in posterior hindfoot endoscopy. 
  • False-positive diagnosis of aortic dissection associated with femoral cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Fetal cerebral ventriculomegaly: misidentification of the true medial boundary of the ventricle at US. 
  • Fine-needle aspiration of papillary thyroid carcinoma: distinguishing between cases that performed well and those that performed poorly in the College of American Pathologists Nongynecologic Cytology Program. 
  • Focal intrahepatic extramedullary hematopoiesis mimicking neoplasm. 
  • Fool's gold: Why imperfect reference tests are undermining the evaluation of novel diagnostics: a reevaluation of 5 diagnostic tests for leptospirosis. 
  • Genetic diagnosis in Lafora disease: genotype-phenotype correlations and diagnostic pitfalls. 
  • Giant cell aortitis mimicking intramural hematoma. 
  • Giant cell tumor of rib masquerading as thymoma: a diagnostic pitfall in needle core biopsy of the mediastinum. 
  • Glutaric acidemia, type I, missed by newborn screening in an infant with dystonia following promethazine administration. 
  • How common is misdiagnosis in late-onset Pompe disease? 
  • How well do clinic-based blood pressure measurements agree with the mercury standard? 
  • Hyperchromatic crowded groups in cervical cytology--differing appearances and interpretations in conventional and ThinPrep preparations: a study from the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Cervicovaginal Cytology. 
  • Identifying error-making patterns in assessment of mammographic BI-RADS descriptors among radiology residents using statistical pattern recognition. 
  • Imaging evaluation of the patient with worst headache of life--it's not all subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Impact of core-needle breast biopsy on the surgical management of mammographic abnormalities. 
  • Improving radiologists' recommendations with computer-aided diagnosis for management of small nodules detected by CT. 
  • Influence of DMSO on antifungal activity during susceptibility testing in vitro. 
  • Infrequent diagnosis of primary human immunodeficiency virus infection: missed opportunities in acute care settings. 
  • Institutional review of outside cytology materials: a retrospective analysis of two institutions' experiences. 
  • Interpretive Diagnostic Error Reduction in Surgical Pathology and Cytology: Guideline From the College of American Pathologists Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center and the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. 
  • Is oil red-O staining and digital image analysis the gold standard for quantifying steatosis in the liver? 
  • Journal Club: incidental thyroid nodules detected at imaging: can diagnostic workup be reduced by use of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound recommendations and the three-tiered system? 
  • Lateral condyle fractures: missed diagnoses in pediatric elbow injuries. 
  • Leukemia/lymphoma in cerebrospinal fluid: distinguishing between cases that performed well and poorly in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Non-gynecologic Cytology. 
  • Logical Differential Prediction Bayes Net, improving breast cancer diagnosis for older women. 
  • Lung-cancer screening. 
  • Lymph nodes in colorectal carcinoma. The Poisson probability paradigm. 
  • MNGIE neuropathy: five cases mimicking chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • Major depressive disorder with psychotic features may lead to misdiagnosis of dementia: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Malaria vaccine efficacy: the difficulty of detecting and diagnosing malaria. 
  • Measuring the significance of participant evaluation of acceptability of cases in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Methotrexate Administration to Patients With Presumed Ectopic Pregnancy Leads to Methotrexate Exposure of Intrauterine Pregnancies. 
  • Middle cerebral artery aneurysm misdiagnosed as a temporomandibular disorder: report of a case. 
  • Minimizing the risk of inappropriately administering thrombolytic therapy (Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction [TAMI] study group). 
  • Misdiagnoses of endogenous depression with research diagnostic criteria. 
  • Missed opportunities for timely diagnosis of pediatric lupus in South Africa: a qualitative study. 
  • Navigating the scylla and charybdis of chest pain management in the emergency department. Is a computer the answer? 
  • Necropsy diagnosis of endometrial cancer and detection-bias in case/control studies. 
  • Nosocomial infection in the NICU: a medical complication or unavoidable problem? 
  • Occult orthopaedic trauma in the multiply injured patient. 
  • Occult temporal arteritis. 
  • Optical coherence tomography errors in glaucoma. 
  • Outpatient diagnostic errors: unrecognized hyperglycemia. 
  • Ovarian cyst rupture causing hemoperitoneum: imaging features and the potential for misdiagnosis. 
  • Overdiagnosis in low-dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer. 
  • PACS in sonography: accuracy of interpretation using film compared with monitor display. Picture archiving and communication systems. 
  • PET/CT: artifacts caused by bowel motion. 
  • Paget's disease of the breast masquerading as squamous cell carcinoma on cytology: a case report. 
  • Parathyroid 4D CT and Scintigraphy: What Factors Contribute to Missed Parathyroid Lesions? 
  • Pathological bone fractures in a 20-year old athletic male with multifocal solitary plasmacytoma of bone. 
  • Pediatric melanoma: a single-institution experience of 150 patients. 
  • Perceptron error surface analysis: a case study in breast cancer diagnosis. 
  • Performance characteristics of different modalities for diagnosis of suspected lung cancer: summary of published evidence. 
  • Phenotype of normal spirometry in an aging population. 
  • Physiologic pseudoseizures: an EEG case report of mistake in identity. 
  • Pitfalls in avoiding operation for autoimmune pancreatitis. 
  • Postoperative pubic osteomyelitis misdiagnosed as osteitis pubis: report of four cases and review. 
  • Predictors of Physician Under-Recognition of Angina in Outpatients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Predictors of Ultrasound Failure to Detect Hepatocellular Carcinoma. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and the pediatric surgeon: the impact of prenatal consultation on perinatal management. 
  • Preoperative Cytologic Diagnosis of Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features: A Prospective Analysis. 
  • Preoperative MR imaging in hyperparathyroidism: results and factors affecting parathyroid detection. 
  • Presumptive diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis based on radiographic findings. 
  • Prevalence and clinical outcomes of undiagnosed diabetes mellitus and prediabetes among patients with high-risk non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Primary immunodeficiency or not? Making the correct diagnosis. 
  • Problems created in attenuation-corrected SPECT images by artifacts in attenuation maps: a simulation study. 
  • Projected morbidity and mortality from missed diagnoses of coronary artery disease in the United States. 
  • Prospective correlation of cervicovaginal cytologic and histologic specimens. 
  • Pseudo-migration of a biliary stent. 
  • Psoriatic arthritis of the foot and ankle: analysis of joint involvement and diagnostic errors. 
  • Q: elevated serum creatine kinase (does/does not) equal myocardial infarction? 
  • Quality Improvement in 3D Imaging. 
  • Quality-assurance study of simultaneously sampled, non-correlating cervical cytology and biopsies. 
  • RADPEER peer review: relevance, use, concerns, challenges, and direction forward. 
  • Radiology Trainee Performance in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Relationship Between Difficulty and Error-Making Patterns. 
  • Radiology resident mammography training: interpretation difficulty and error-making patterns. 
  • Re: "Community-acquired pneumonia". 
  • Recurrent pseudobacteremias traced to a radiometric blood culture device. 
  • Regarding workload and error rates in anatomic pathology. 
  • Retroaortic left renal vein in testicular cancer patient: potential staging and treatment pitfall. 
  • Rim-rent tear of the rotator cuff: a common and easily overlooked partial tear. 
  • Sarcopenia: an undiagnosed condition in older adults. Current consensus definition: prevalence, etiology, and consequences. International working group on sarcopenia. 
  • Selvester QRS scoring in conduction abnormalitites: Caution recommended due to recent findings. 
  • Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Part II: Clinical applications. 
  • Spectrum of Pitfalls, Pseudolesions, and Misdiagnoses in Noncirrhotic Liver. 
  • Spectrum of Pitfalls, Pseudolesions, and Potential Misdiagnoses in Cirrhosis. 
  • Squamous cell neoplasia controversy in the female exposed to diethylstilbestrol. 
  • Strategies of dose reduction. 
  • Subtyping primary insomnia: is sleep state misperception a distinct clinical entity? 
  • Sumatriptan-induced stroke in sagittal sinus thrombosis. 
  • Symptomatic obstruction of the brachiocephalic and left subclavian arteries obscured by aortic stenosis. 
  • Synthetic positron emission tomography-computed tomography images for use in perceptual studies. 
  • Technologic advances for evaluation of cervical cytology: is newer better? 
  • Temporoparietal hypometabolism in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and associated imaging diagnostic errors. 
  • Thal patch gastroesophagoplasty: chest radiographic findings simulating leak or abscess. 
  • The Linear Nail Streak: A Lesson in Cultural Humility. 
  • The influence of cardiograph design and automated algorithms on the incidence and detection of electrode cable reversals in an academic electrocardiogram laboratory. 
  • The potential for failure in gynecologic regulatory proficiency testing with current slide validation criteria: results from the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison in Gynecologic Cytology Program. 
  • Thyroid malignancy masquerading as thyroiditis. 
  • Time course of satisfaction of search. 
  • Tissue storage and primer selection influence pyrosequencing-based inferences of diversity and community composition of endolichenic and endophytic fungi. 
  • US Features of thyroid malignancy: pearls and pitfalls. 
  • Understanding errors in diagnostic radiology: proposal of a classification scheme and application to emergency radiology. 
  • Unrecognised Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia among hospital inpatients in less developed countries. 
  • Using computer-extracted image features for modeling of error-making patterns in detection of mammographic masses among radiology residents. 
  • Utility of fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of primary osteosarcoma. 
  • Variability in mammogram interpretation. 
  • Vectorcardiographic criteria for the diagnosis of inferior myocardial infarction. 
  • Walking the walk…or achieving quality is harder than it seems. 
  • [Misdiagnosis and mistherapy of ectopic thyroid gland]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Attarian, David Edward, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
  • DeLong, Elizabeth Ray, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Richard Hall Chaney, Sr. Professor of Otolaryngology, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
  • Fox, James Walter, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Professor of Radiology, Pathology