Telemedicine support to village doctors could hold the key to improving access to care for China’s rural elderly at risk for developing potentially life-threatening complications resulting from untreated atrial fibrillation, according to late breaking research presented in a Hot Line Session at this year’s ESC Congress 2024 in London, UK (30 Aug – 2 Sept).
Misdiagnoses cost the U.S. 800,000 deaths and serious disabilities every year, study finds
Diagnostic errors — that is, overlooking a disease, or diagnosing it erroneously or late — are a known occurrence in health care, and one that