How doctors think: common diagnostic errors in clinical judgment lessons from an undiagnosed and rare disease program. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

How doctors think: common diagnostic errors in clinical judgment lessons from an undiagnosed and rare disease program. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Review
 
• Published February 2017

How doctors think: common diagnostic errors in clinical judgment—lessons from an undiagnosed and rare disease program.

Kliegman RM, Bordini BJ, Basel D, Nocton JJ. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2017;64:1-15.

This review discusses the diagnostic challenges rare diseases present to clinicians. The authors outline strategies to help clinicians evaluate patients with undiagnosed or rare diseases and to address cognitive biases and flawed decision-making.

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