Dr. Hardeep Singh, who led the new study at the Houston VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, added that most of the missed diagnoses were traced back to the office visit and the doctor not getting an accurate patient history, doing a full exam or ordering the correct tests.
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The doctors examined the patient's history, motivation and ability to understand the risks of the transplant.
He said that once a patient has been diagnosed as brain-dead and donation is a possibility, a donor coordinator will approach their family to learn more about the patient's history.
Currently, Watson's fact-finding prowess is being applied to crucial fields, such as healthcare, where IBM is collaborating with medical providers, hospitals and physicians to help doctors analyze a patient's history, symptoms and the latest news and medical literature to help physicians make faster, more accurate diagnoses.
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Most state laws do not require the doctors to look at the patient's drug history.
It's important to take into account a patient's full history of allergies and other health problems, he said.
The researchers recommend that doctors ask a few quick questions to determine a patient's family history of psychiatric problems.
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They also test urine to see whether it matches the patient's medication history.
Doctors will also want to know if the patient has had a history of neck X-rays as a child.
For example, using information on a patient's family history, daily nutrition and exercise habits, the app can determine his or her risk for heart disease.
For example, in the US electronic bracelets are in use that can be scanned by doctors enabling them immediate and easy access to the patient's medical history.
Doctors often gloss over a key question for assessing a person's risk for coronary heart disease, according to a new study: What is the patient's family history of cardiovascular illness?
But the British Medical Association said it was concerned about the "fragmentation of patient care" as there was not yet a fully-functioning electronic record so different doctors could view a patient's medical history.
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You know, the doctor is going to not only know about the state of the science about these things, but they also know the patient's medical history and are, I think, a very important component here of helping to give clear, simple messages about what people can do about it.
Dr Thamby, a GP at Kingsthorpe Medical Centre, also failed to take an adequate history of a second patient who telephoned in July 2011 with "severe abdominal pain".
He is thought to have caught MERS there before passing it onto the second patient, who had no travel history and with whom he shared a room for three days.
The doctors go online and get the patient's data (medical history, drug allergies, etc), which happens to be stored on the computer of a clinic on the other side of the world.
Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and who studies health policies and ethics, said Tenet has a history of promoting profits over patient care.
He will have been handpicked by City's high command and recent history shows they can be a patient bunch.
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As soon as he visited his first 515-pound patient, an orangutan named Kandu with a family history of heart disease, Hergott was fascinated by the experience.
It has created a city-wide network in which physicians can, with the patient's permission, log on to a complete medical history that includes all previous care at the 11 participating hospitals.
Doctors sometimes make judgment calls to treat people as high risk because of family history, even if it isn't part of the patient's risk score.
Taking aim at diabetes, arthritis, lupus, obesity and cancer, the biotech house now has 40 drugs in preclinical or patient trials, more than at any time in the company's history and up from only 22 during the entire 1990s.
And in an era when companies hold a host of personal information, the fact remains an ambulance can still respond to an emergency call, ferry a patient to hospital but doctors will still have little knowledge of their medical history.
These patient-centered Medicare reforms and pro-growth tax reforms have a long history of bipartisan support.
It is now most often used by History of Medicine students, as it provides unusually well preserved records of patient treatment and medical care at the time.
Each area has its own history and traditions, its own gaps in infrastructure, and its own distinctive patient population.
When an instructor logs on to the Patient Editor software, the first thing he or she will see is a screen with a medical history template.
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