Meeting
Plenary Presentations
Abstract Number: PL3
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Diagnostic errors (DE), defined as missed opportunities to make a correct or timely diagnosis based on the available evidence, are a critical but understudied cause of patient harm. While previous efforts have focused on examining the incidence and factors contributing to DEs in ambulatory and emergency room settings, fewer studies have examined incidence of […]
Abstract Number: 1093
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old Japanese man who attended to an orthopedist in an outside hospital with multiple fractures of rib bones and a compression fracture of vertebral bones was referred to our hospital for further investigation for the tentative diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis worried about increased serum level of matrix metalloproteinase-3. In advance of the […]