title: [Errors in the diagnosis of malignant tumors during the prehospital stage].
abstract: A group of experts from The P. A. Herzen Research Institute of Oncology reviewed 6000 histories of cancer. The analysis showed errors by outpatient hospital staff to account for untimely diagnosis of cancer in the majority of cases of advanced disease. A classification of medical errors was developed. Objective and subjective factors leading to errors were analysed. Review of records of diagnostic data is suggested. It is also suggested that physicians should bear responsibility for errors in oncology which have grave consequences.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Chissov
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Demidov
authors.forename: A Kh
authors.initials: AKh
authors.lastname: Trakhtenberg
authors.forename: V O
authors.initials: VO
authors.lastname: Ol'shanskiĭ
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Mamontov
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Novikova
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010045:Outpatients; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Oshibki diagnostiki zlokachestvennykh opukholeĭ na dogospital'nom étape.