By IDSE News Staff
An analysis of more than 2 million hospital visits found a diagnosis of pneumonia made in the hospital will change between patient admission and discharge—either because someone was admitted with a diagnosis of pneumonia but the final diagnosis was changed, or a final diagnosis of pneumonia was missed when a patient entered the hospital (Ann Intern Med 2024 Aug 6. doi:10.7326/M23-2505).
Pneumonia diagnoses are marked by pronounced uncertainty, according to Barbara Jones,