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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Reducing Medical Errors

Question 1 • Introduction to Health Science - EL3601 B

A woman takes her child to the family doctor for a cough. The doctor listens to the child’s lungs and orders an X-ray. The X-ray is distorted and hard for the doctor to read. The doctor diagnoses the child with pneumonia, but the child does not have pneumonia. What type of error has occurred?

Answer
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imaging error
B
diagnostic error
C
medication error
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