Psychiatry research
Clinician awareness and systemic barriers of diagnostic overshadowing in emergency psychiatry: A latent class analysis.
Omer Faruk Karakoyun, Yalcin Golcuk, Fulden Cantas Turkis, Meltem Derya Sahın, Halil Emre Koyuncuoglu, Omer Harun Sagnic
Published: 202610.1016/j.psychres.2026.116958
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Diagnostic overshadowing (DO)-the misattribution of new physical symptoms to a pre-existing psychiatric diagnosis-can delay recognition of medical illness and worsen outcomes in emergency care. This study examined clinicians' awareness of…
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