Diagnostic errors are among the top allegations in US medical malpractice claims. While it’s impossible to eliminate all errors, there are some actions that can reduce the risks of diagnostic mistakes. One such action is to focus on each patient’s…
Researchers have identified more than 100 biases that can interfere with diagnostic reasoning. These biases can sway practitioners’ thinking during both intuitive and deliberative cognitive processes. This activity discusses biases and offers strategies to reduce their detrimental impacts.
ECHO Autism: Intense Behavior aims to increase access to best-practice assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for individuals on the autism spectrum with intense behavior such as severe emotional dysregulation, self-injurious behaviors, and physical aggression towards others. A variety of research studies…
Postpartum is a stressful time for this high-risk population as relapse rates are high and pain tolerance is low. Special considerations should be given to pain control, sedation risk, breastfeeding, contraception, and safe transition of the newborn to extrauterine life….
In the US, drug and opioid overdose deaths have nearly quadrupled over the last decade. Synthetic opioid-related deaths increased 850% in women. Nearly 85% of pregnancies in women with opioid use disorder are unintended. During pregnancy, chronic untreated substance and…
In the US, drug and opioid overdose deaths have nearly quadrupled over the last decade. Synthetic opioid-related deaths increased 850% in women. Nearly 85% of pregnancies in women with substance use disorder (SUD) are unintended. During pregnancy, chronic untreated substance…
Fetal malpresentation is defined as a fetus presenting at birth in a non-vertex presentation as either occiput transverse (OT) or occiput posterior (OP). This condition occurs 15% to 25% at term and 5% to 12% at birth, frequently increases risk…
This overview of the discipline of diagnostic safety gives information about the number of diagnostic errors that occur each year in the US. It discusses barriers that make diagnostic errors more likely and presents strategies for making diagnosis safer.
This case report describes an 18-year-old woman with neurofibromatosis type 1 and prior right brachial plexus neurofibroma resection who reported intermittent, unilateral facial flushing after exertion.
Many of us hear about breaches everywhere and are warned of impending cyber harm daily. Our inboxes are filled with newsletters and webinars – like this one – about what we can do to prepare. Add to this the pressures…
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