Who is at risk for diagnostic discrepancies? Comparison of pre- and postmortal diagnoses in 1800 patients of 3 medical decades in east and west Berlin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wittschieber, Daniel ^a,b   Klauschen, Frederick ^a   Kimmritz, Anna Christin ^a   von Winterfeld, Moritz ^a   Kamphues, Carsten ^a   Scholman, Hans Joachim ^a   Erbersdobler, Andreas ^d   Pfeiffer, Heidi ^b   Denkert, Carsten ^a   Dietel, Manfred ^a   Weichert, Wilko ^c   Budczies, Jan ^a   Stenzinger, Albrecht ^a,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC DISCREPANCY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84861326680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037460     Document Type: Article

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