Posted by Larry Hoover on August 14, 2007, at 10:56:36
In reply to Are there statistics on misdiagnoses?, posted by Squiggles on August 14, 2007, at 9:43:47
> What I would like to find out is how many cases have been documented of a misdiagnosis only to be discovered after the AD is withdrawn.
A significant confound is the natural process of remission. Diagnosis is time-dependent. It may simply no longer be valid, whereas it once was.
You might be interested in this article:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1313675&blobtype=pdfLar
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