Open AccessDo GPs report diagnostic errors?
Author(s) -
Olga Kostopoulou
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
family practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.955
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1460-2229
pISSN - 0263-2136
DOI - 10.1093/fampra/cmn014
Subject(s) - medicine , global positioning system , medical physics , telecommunications , computer science
Missing serious con-ditions such as cancers can have devastating conse-quences for patients. It can also have serious adverseconsequences for the doctor in terms of trust, self-condence and litigation. Indeed, most medico-legalclaims against GPs are about delay in diagnosis or mis-diagnosis (63–66%).
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