Abstract
We present two cases that highlight the role of pharmacists in the diagnostic process and illustrate how a culture of safety and teamwork between pharmacists and physicians can help prevent diagnostic errors.
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- Mini Review
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- Opinion Paper
- How insight contributes to diagnostic excellence
- Original Articles
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- Performance evaluation of automated cell counts compared with reference methods for body fluid analysis
- Short Communication
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- Pharmacists can improve diagnosis and help prevent diagnostic errors
- Letter to the Editors
- The art of diagnostic reasoning
- Improving the physical exam: a new assessment and evaluation tool for physical examination skills
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Review
- Affective influences on clinical reasoning and diagnosis: insights from social psychology and new research opportunities
- Mini Review
- Homocysteine in coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a systematic literature review
- Opinion Paper
- How insight contributes to diagnostic excellence
- Original Articles
- Diagnostic statements: a linguistic analysis of how clinicians communicate diagnosis
- The use of podcasts as a tool to teach clinical reasoning: a pseudorandomized and controlled study
- Diagnostic delays in infectious diseases
- Diagnostic journeys: characterization of patients and diagnostic outcomes from an academic second opinion clinic
- A pause in pediatrics: implementation of a pediatric diagnostic time-out
- Applying a diagnostic excellence framework to assess opportunities to improve recognition of child physical abuse
- Identifying predictors for source culture positivity in children with acute musculoskeletal infections
- Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 antigen electrochemiluminescence immunoassay to RT-PCR assay for laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19 in Peshawar
- Performance evaluation of automated cell counts compared with reference methods for body fluid analysis
- Short Communication
- Impact of subspecialty consultations on diagnosis in the pediatric intensive care unit
- Case Report - Lessons in Clinical Reasoning
- Pharmacists can improve diagnosis and help prevent diagnostic errors
- Letter to the Editors
- The art of diagnostic reasoning
- Improving the physical exam: a new assessment and evaluation tool for physical examination skills
- Performance of the Wondfo 2019-nCoV antigen test using self-collected nasal versus professional-collected nasopharyngeal swabs in symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection