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Commentary
The COVID trap: pediatric diagnostic errors in a pandemic world.
August 25, 2021
Fatemi Y, Coffin SE. Diagnosis (Berl). 2021;8(4):525-531.
Using case studies, this commentary describes how availability bias, diagnostic momentum, and premature closure resulted in delayed diagnosis for three pediatric patients first diagnosed with COVID-19. The authors highlight cognitive and systems factors that influenced this diagnostic error.
