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Neuro-ophthalmologic conditions are at a higher risk of misdiagnosis compared to other ophthalmic conditions. Increased awareness of the most common diagnostic errors in neuro-ophthalmology that lead ...
Malpractice trials in the Westlaw Legal Database that involved cases of neuro-ophthalmologic diagnostic errors or failures by ophthalmologists were included in this study....
A total of 43 cases were included, all citing failure to diagnose as the main reason for litigation. The most common diagnoses missed were cerebrovascular pathologies (30.2%), intracranial tumours (27...
Nearly half of the cases resulted in a defendant verdict. Settlement and plaintiff verdicts were costly, with average awards of approximately two million inflation-adjusted dollars. Failure to diagnos...