What is it about?
This article discusses the risks of misdiagnosis in COVID-19 disease and how to mitigate these risks through the use of the mnemonic SAFER PRACTICES. This is used to help clinicians prepare for consulting in patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 disease and also as a diagnostic checklist during the consultation.
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Why is it important?
Formulating the correct diagnosis is a function of acquiring and applying the correct medical knowledge, gathering the correct clinical information during the clinical assessment and performing diagnostic reasoning correctly. COVID-19 is a new disease, which means that medical knowledge about how it presents is still being developed, which increases the risk of misdiagnosis. This article describes how this risk can be be reduced through the use of SAFER PRACTICES.
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Hopefully, this article will increase awareness of the risks of misdiagnosis in the COVID-19 era and of the varied presentations of this disease, as well as offering a strategy for risk reduction.
Dr Paul Philip Silverston
Anglia Ruskin University
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This page is a summary of: SAFER PRACTICES in the COVID-19 pandemic, Practice Nursing, May 2020, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/pnur.2020.31.5.194.
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