‼️ #DiagnosticMomentum is rampant in common infxns like #CAP and #UTI

✨The role of #Hospitalists is to constantly re-evaluate/refine diagnoses to improve pt care and #AntibioticStewardship !

Poster by Dr Tim Brash mentored by Dr Valerie Vaughn

#SHMConverge24 Society of Hospital Medicine

Day3 - #ClinicalPearl

When assuming care for pt in hospital for >30d (14d?), take a moment to critically eval the diagnoses & plans

#DiagnosticMomentum is REAL & often leads to errors, anchoring bias, & more

Ask WHY the plan is what it is
#MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter
#MedEd

Loved hearing about Cognitive Errors in #Diagnosis & Clinical Reasoning from Daniel Restrepo, MD

🔍Don’t stop searching too quickly
➡️ Be aware of #DiagnosticMomentum
🩻 Misdiagnosis of #PNA & #UTI is common/correlated
✅ Take effortful pauses & ask why

#SHMConverge24

Don't miss it! Society of Hospital Medicine Converge is taking place in San Diego, CA on April 12-15‼️ Be sure to check out the #HMS presentations (poster/oral) if you're there. 😀 #Sepsis #PICCs #Midlines #DiagnosticMomentum #Hospitalist #Pneumonia #UTI #Deescalation #Antimicrobial

Megan E. Doherty, PhD Mich Dr Keith Geraghty #epistemicinjustice #madinamerica #diagnosticmomentum #diagnosticivershadowing

Opinion: ‘I almost died last year from a medical problem - #appendicitis - that was entirely preventable’ - by ⁦Jake Tapper⁩’s daughter, Alice.

#bias #diagnosticmomentum #groupthink cnn.com/2022/12/15/opi…

Take on board information from others, but don't stop considering other diagnoses #DiagnosticMomentum #UKSPC21 Prof. Will Broughton FCPara

Paul Morgan @[email protected] @bendean1979 Doctors’ Association UK 💙 @tkingdot The UK Sepsis Trust Matt Hancock It’s cheap & effective only when delivered to right patients: Sepsis 6 into px w/ non-sepsis infn wasteful in terms resources & AB stewardship, & can be catastrophic when given to an unwell patient who doesn’t actually have sepsis but everyone stopped thinking #diagnosticmomentum