Diagnostic errors in the pediatric and neonatal ICU: A systematic review

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-36

  Custer, Jason W ^a   Winters, Bradford D ^b   Goode, Victoria ^b   Robinson, Karen A ^b   Yang, Ting ^b   Pronovost, Peter J ^b   Newman Toker, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

autopsy; diagnostic errors; intensive care units; metaanalysis; neonatal; pediatric intensive care units

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL NECROSIS; ALPHA ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ANGIOMA; AORTA COARCTATION; ATRESIA; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BLEEDING; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CINAHL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COLON ATRESIA; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPOPLASIA; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DE LANGE SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; DYSPLASIA; EMBASE; GANGLIOSIDOSIS; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INFECTION; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTUSSUSCEPTION; KERNICTERUS; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LACERATION; LIVER NECROSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; LYMPHANGIECTASIS; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; MEDLINE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MYCOSIS; NECROSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORNITHINE TRANSCARBAMYLASE DEFICIENCY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT NECROSIS; REVIEW; SCREENING; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SIGMOID VOLVULUS; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; STANDARD; STUDY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; TYROSINEMIA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VIRUS INFECTION; X LINKED AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84921444969     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000274     Document Type: Review

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