diagnosis
3 stories tagged "diagnosis"
Metabolic & Weight
The Cheapest Measurement in the Exam Room Beat BMI and the Lancet's Four-Part Obesity Formula
BMI flagged 37 percent of the adults a body-fat scan called obese. On overall accuracy, a cloth tape around the waist caught far more and edged out the four-measurement framework built to fix BMI.
InvestigationsA Third of England's COPD Patients Aren't Diagnosed Until a Hospital Admission
Across 1.7 million patients and thirteen conditions, being diagnosed only after an emergency tracked with far higher odds of dying within a year, up to sevenfold for coeliac disease, in a health service whose own records held the story for two decades.
InvestigationsA JAMA Essay Says the Doctor Makes Your Care Worse. Three of Its Four Authors Sell the AI.
The Viewpoint predicts autonomous AI will run much of primary care by 2030, and that adding a human doctor can make the care worse. Its evidence is trained actors chatting over text, and three of its four authors sell or bankroll the AI.