How seniors can avoid misdiagnosis

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…visits, medications, and tracking of symptoms may be disorganized and filled with holes. Each of these can derail the search for a diagnosis. Memory is also key to the second…

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Board Members

…of The National Quality Forum. Prior to joining NQF, Dr. Burstin was the Director of the Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships at the Agency for Healthcare Research

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Journey to Zero Patient Harm

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…sites of care. Advocate Aurora is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies and is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology and pediatrics. “At AAH,…

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EuroDEM 2018 Abstracts

…Lyratzopoulos Improving the Diagnosis of Cancer: Recent UK Initiatives, Ongoing Research Priorities, Potential Lessons for other Disease Areas and Health Systems Since 2008, the UK government and major charitable research

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Private: Transforming Medical Education

…convened, with representatives from a wide range of stakeholders, including patients, and clinicians and educators from internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, nursing, pharmacy, laboratory sciences, and radiology. A literature search

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Competencies

…uncertainty. Avoids attaching a diagnosis to a patient before sufficient information has been unpacked. Avoids excess testing in the quest for certainty. Accepts that uncertainty and ambiguity are inevitable aspects…

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