Showing posts with label Overdiagnosis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Overdiagnosis. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 November 2020

A Whole New World - Honesty in Paediatrics

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Paediatrics is a specialty where lying about a diagnosis is normal practice.  It's not because we're bad people.  When you think abo...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

COVID question number 6 - What is hyperinflammatory syndrome and how do I recognise it?

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At the same time that we are seeing increasing evidence that COVID-19 is less common, less severe and less infectious in children  (1), evi...
Thursday, 20 July 2017

The Everest-Lifeboat Test (Easter Egg - Investigating apparent faints in children)

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Paediatric guidelines always have to take into account one of the most important maxims of Child Health - the test or treatment must alway...
Tuesday, 28 March 2017

The Random Goldfish - When confirmation bias met affective bias

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In the previous post , I explored how confirmation bias can lead us to believe that something is causing a problem when really it isn...
Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Your New Year's Resolution - Undiagnose a Child This Year

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If you’re wondering what to do for your New Year’s resolution, don’t give something up or join a gym.  Neither will work out anyway.  This y...
Thursday, 13 October 2016

Why bronchiolitis doesn't get better with inhalers and how understanding "why?" is better than "do that!"

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There was interesting debate this week about using inhalers for bronchiolitis.  The interesting features included how heated it became (ther...
Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Asthma, Overdiagnosis, Underdiagnosis and all that

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A storm is coming and it's set to be a force 10.  There is much debate about how asthma should be diagnosed in children.  There are two ...