Doctors Commonly Misdiagnose Older Patients With Pneumonia: Study

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Anuradha Varanasi is a freelance science writer. She writes on the intersection of health/medicine, racial disparities, and climate change. She earned an MA in Science Journalism from Columbia University in New York City.

hospital in Marzahn district on June 17, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The UKB hospital has among the most modern emergency care services in Germany. study of over 17,000 hospitalized adult patients who were treated for pneumonia across 48 hospitals in Michigan reported that 12% of them received a pneumonia diagnosis even though they did not have any lung infection.

They found that 2079 or 12% were incorrectly diagnosed with pneumonia. Out of the 2079, close to 74% did not meet the criteria required for undergoing X-ray tests and 24.4% had less than two pneumonia symptoms. Despite that, most of them received a full course of antibiotics. Ukraine Could Get Millions Of Artillery Shells And Soon It s Getting Its Best Guns Ready To Fire Away

 

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