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Case Reports
. 2023 Dec 28;107(1):101.
doi: 10.5334/jbsr.3353. eCollection 2023.

An Avoidable Cognitive Error in Chest Radiography

Laura Haddad  1 , Hanna Salame  2 , Denis Tack  2
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An Avoidable Cognitive Error in Chest Radiography

Laura Haddad et al. J Belg Soc Radiol. .

Abstract

Teaching Point: Awareness in radiology reporting of cognitive errors such as the alliterative bias can help minimize the delay to diagnosis and accelerate adequate patient care.

Keywords: chest radiography; diagnostic accuracy; interpretation error; missed foreign body; training.

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The authors have no competing interests to declare.

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