Misdiagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism: Frequent and Harmful
Kind of a scary article:
Misdiagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism Found Frequent and Harmful – CME Teaching Brief – MedPage Today
Despite evidence-based guidelines, diagnostic mismanagement of a suspected pulmonary embolism is common and harmful, according to French researchers.
Two large studies reported in the Feb. 7 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine alerted physicians to a serious diagnostic problem involving a suspected pulmonary embolism and suggested a method of providing less subjective diagnoses for these patients.