When a Diagnosis Has No Name: Uncertainty and Opportunity.

ABSTRACT: Diagnostic uncertainty, commonly encountered in rheumatology and other fields of medicine, is an opportunity: Stakeholders who understand uncertainty's causes and quantitate its effects can reduce uncertainty and can use uncertainty to improve medical practice, science, and administration. To articulate, bring attention to, and offer recommendations for diagnostic uncertainty, the Barbara Volcker Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery sponsored, in April 2021, a virtual international workshop, "When a Diagnosis Has No Name." This paper summarizes the opinions of 72 stakeholders from the fields of medical research, industry, federal regulatory agencies, insurers, hospital management, medical philosophy, public media, health care law, clinical rheumatology, other specialty areas of medic

SUBMITTER: Lockshin MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8916551 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature