Frontotemporal dementia – reasons for misdiagnosis – University of Queensland researchers discovered that nearly 70 per cent of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that contribute to misdiagnosis of this notoriously difficult to diagnose disorder. Psychiatrist Dr Joshua Flavell, working with cognitive neurologist Professor […]
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Misdiagnosis of acute illnesses and chronic conditions is the largest cause of preventable medical error and accounts for over 40 per cent of medical malpractice claims in Britain. The National Patient Safety Agency does keep figures of diagnostic errors made in NHS hospitals but underreporting is common. In 2014, the NHS paid out £194 million in […]
There’s a condition that most doctors have never heard of, yet the group of patients that it affects are most likely experts on the condition. It’s a deadly condition that can lead to stroke, convulsions, cardiac arrest and death, yet can be treated in seconds without drugs. In one survey, emergency department staff scored an […]