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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 94-98 |
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Why chronic pain patients are misdiagnosed 40 to 80% of the time?
Nelson Hendler
Former Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Correspondence Address:
Nelson Hendler
Former Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
USA
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | 2 |
DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10046-0051
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins Hospital have reported that 40%-80% of chronic pain patients are misdiagnosed. The leading causes for these errors are a failure to take a thorough and comprehensive history from the patient, and ordering the wrong tests. Typical testing errors are the use of anatomical tests to detect the physiological phenomenon of chronic pain, and a failure to understand the specificity and sensitivity of medical testing commonly in use.
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