Lyme disease is baffling, even to experts, but new insights are at last accumulating. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Lyme disease is baffling, even to experts, but new insights are at last accumulating. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Newspaper/Magazine Article
 
• Published February 2019

Lyme disease is baffling, even to experts, but new insights are at last accumulating.

O'Rourke M. The Atlantic. September 2019.

Diagnostic errors occur due to a variety of factors. This magazine article reports on the persistent misdiagnosis and ineffective treatment of Lyme disease, including how lack of a standardized test for the disease and bias affect diagnosis and treatment of this condition.

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