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When the Patient Is Making the (Wrong?) Diagnosis: A Biographical Approach to Patients Consulting for Presumed Lyme Disease

2022-05-31

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<h4>Background: </h4> Media coverage of Lyme disease (LD) has led to an increase in consultations for presumed LD in Europe. However, LD is confirmed in only 10-20% of patients, with a significant number remaining in a diagnostic dead-end. <h4>Objectives:</h4> To reach a deeper understanding of how patients themselves contribute to the diagnostic process. To describe the genesis of the LD hypothesis in care pathwa...

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Literature Corpus work: a20df016-846a-52ef-8a72-4ac27c6ebfad
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202205.0350.v3

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