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Experts today call for more value to be given to patients’ ‘lived experiences’ as a study of over 1,000 patients and clinicians found multiple examples of patient reports being under-valued. It’s incredibly important that we listen to and value

Less than 4% of clinicians consider a patient’s self-assessments as one of the top three types of evidence in diagnoses, according to a study of 400 clinicians and 676...

Experts are calling for a shift away from the traditional notion of doctor knows best.

A “doctor knows best” attitude means patients are too often ignored, a University of Cambridge study has said.

Clinicians ranked patient self-assessments as the least important type of evidence during diagnosis

Researchers surveyed patients with neuropsychiatric lupus, which they said is challenging to diagnose.

It comes as a study led by the University of Cambridge and Kings College London found a patients view of their own symptoms or illness is not valued by the majority of clinicians.

A study by Cambridge University found doctors often disregarded self-assessments when making a diagnosis

<p>Experts today call for more value to be given to patients’ ‘lived experiences’ as a study of over 1,000 patients and clinicians found multiple examples of patient reports being under-valued. The research, led by a team at the University of Cambridge and Kings’ College London, found that clinicians ranked patient self-assessments as least important in diagnostic decisions, and said that patients both over- and under-played their symptoms m...

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