A national cohort study representing more than 2 million patient encounters found that more than half of all patients hospitalized and treated for pneumonia experienced discordant diagnoses from their initial presentation to discharge.
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Hospital Pneumonia Diagnoses are Uncertain, Revised More than Half the Time, Study Finds
An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most pneumonia diagnoses made in the hospital will change from a patient’s entrance to their discharge; clinical notes on pneumonia diagnoses reflect similarly high uncertainty.
Solving a medical mystery and changing CDC screenings for COVID-19
UC Davis Health physicians and medical staff who treated the first case of community transmission of COVID-19 in the U.S. provide a detailed case study of her condition and the medical steps and challenges they experienced before arriving at a diagnosis and treatment.