From: Identification of factors associated with diagnostic error in primary care
Variable | Headland | When it is filled out | Explanation |
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1. Evaluation Of final diagnosis | |||
- Final diagnosis confirmed | When final diagnosis of underlying cause of dyspnoea is made | Possible use of availability heuristic (diagnostic possibilities that come to the physician’s mind at the time of diagnosis) when the hypotheses are compared with the final diagnosis | |
- Time since first visit | |||
- Number of visits | |||
2. AUDIT | |||
Medical history | Personal and family history | After diagnosis is confirmed | Evaluation of accuracy of diagnosis |
Characteristics of dyspnoea | |||
Accompanying symptoms | |||
Physical examination | |||
Further tests | |||
Appropriateness of diagnostic process | |||
Performance of suboptimal cognitive acts | Identification of error type (slip, lapse, mistake, violation) | Evaluation of existence of suboptimal cognitive act | |
Identification of diagnostic error | Stage in which it occurs | Evaluation of the existence of an error and its consequences | |
Existence of misdiagnosis-related damage and damage type | |||
Possibility of damage prevention |