Patient cueing, a type of diagnostic error.
Diagnostic failure can be due to a variety of psychological errors on the part of the diagnostician. An erroneous diagnosis rendered by previous clinicians can lead a diagnostician to the wrong diagnosis. This report is the case of a patient who misdiagnosed herself and then led an emergency room physician and subsequent treating physicians to the wrong diagnosis. This mechanism of diagnostic error can be called patient cueing.
Department of Pathology - Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon/GA - USA .
Larry
L
Nichols
Autopsy; Cognitive aspects; Diagnostic error; Error sources; Misdiagnosis