Patient cueing, a type of diagnostic error

Abstract

Diagnostic failure can be due to a variety of psychological errors on the part of the diagnostician. An erroneous diagnosis rendered by previous clinicians can lead a diagnostician to the wrong diagnosis. This report is the case of a patient who misdiagnosed herself and then led an emergency room physician and subsequent treating physicians to the wrong diagnosis. This mechanism of diagnostic error can be called patient cueing

Keywords

• Diagnostic error
• Cognitive aspects
• Error sources
• Misdiagnosis
• Autopsy