Kawasaki disease

Kawasaki disease

Vasculitis induced by drugs

Published in Philippe Camus, Edward C Rosenow, Drug-induced and Iatrogenic Respiratory Disease, 2010

Michiel De Vries, Marjolein Drent, Jan-Wil Cohen Tervaert

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute self-limited disease that occurs predominantly in infants and young children. KD is currently the leading cause of aquired cardiac disease in children in the United States and developed nations. KD presents with fever, rash, conjunctival injection, cervical lymphadenopathy, oral mucosal changes, and oedematous and erythematous hands and feet. Coronary artery aneurysms or ectasia develop in approximately 15–25 per cent of untreated patients and may lead to myocardial infarction, sudden death, or ischaemic heart disease.

Mitigating cognitive bias with clinical decision support systems: an experimental study

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Published in Journal of Decision Systems, 2023

Alisa Küper, Georg Lodde, Elisabeth Livingstone, Dirk Schadendorf, Nicole Krämer

Representativeness heuristics and the subsequent bias entails judging the likelihood of an event belonging to a particular class due to similarities and thereby disregarding whether it belongs to a similar but different class of diagnoses (Wang et al., 2019). One example presented by Richie and Josephson (Richie & Josephson, 2018) for representativeness bias is that ‘a physician may overestimate the likelihood of Kawasaki disease in an Asian child with fever, rash, and conjunctival injection in whom virus would actually be more common’.

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