Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Musculoskeletal Trauma by Reviewing Non-Admission Orthopaedic Referrals in the Next-Day Trauma Meeting

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<h4>INTRODUCTION</h4> Diagnostic errors in orthopaedics are usually caused by missing a fracture or misreading radiographs. The aim of this study was to document the pick-up rate of the wrong diagnoses by reviewing X-rays and casualty notes in the next-day trauma meeting. <h4>PATIENTS AND METHODS</h4> The casualty notes and radiographs of 503 patients were prospectively reviewed in the daily trauma meeting between...

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• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Algorithms
• Bone health and osteoporosis research
• Electronic Health Records
• Fractures, Bone
• Phenotype
• Risk Factors

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Literature Corpus work

66e8290a-7cdd-56d9-a3ba-911dd333f254

DOI

10.1308/003588407x205305

PMCID

PMC2121291