AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -If you want to avoid misdiagnosis, you need to avoid assumptions about symptoms, listen to your patient from start to finish, and always follow up with tests or another check-up to ensure that the problem is gone or on the way out. Follow these rules, and your chances of misdiagnosis are that much lower.

Detailed explanation-2: -Each of the 4Ds (data, diagnostics, devices, drugs) is important in its own right, but their concomitant application is even more important and could advance patient care dramatically. To date, however, the combination of the 4Ds continues to provide challenges, which need to be overcome.

Detailed explanation-3: -Patients not recalling symptoms accurately is one of the main causes that lead to misdiagnosis. There are also times when patients may not mention certain things that they don’t think are important enough to warrant a doctor’s attention – such as headache pain or fatigue.