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Missing pelvic inflammatory disease? Substantial differences in the rate at which doctors diagnose PID
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- Published on: 8 December 2008
- Published on: 8 December 2008Missing PID: Is it a reflection of training?Show More
Dear Editor,
This report confirms that PID can be often be missed clinically. Other than lowering the threshold for diagnosis, there could be other ways of improving diagnosis of PID. Training background may have contributed to the different rate of diagnosis among doctors. It would be important to review whether high diagnosing doctors were more likely to have had gynaecology training compared with low diagnosing d...
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