Wednesday, September 29, 2010

One in Six patients perceive that wrong diagnosis have been made.

An interesting study from the Archives of Internal Medicine (abstract below)reports that 1one in six patients percieve that their doctors have made wrong diagnosis. The study reported "Patients with chronic back pain, higher educational attainment, and poor physical health were at increased odds of perceiving mistakes". This leads to two questions, were there actual mistakes in diagnosis and

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