![Minimizing Stroke Misdiagnosis]()
Each year, some 800,000 stroke patients arrive in the emergency rooms of American hospitals. Up to nine percent of these patients are initially misdiagnosed. One problem is that some stroke patients have non-specific symptoms including headache, yet most emergency room headache cases are benign. The National Institutes of Health has awarded Ava L. Liberman, M.D., a five-year, $1 million grant to quantify the rate of stroke misdiagnosis among patients reporting to emergency rooms with headaches. Dr. Liberman will use information from the emergency department of John Hopkins and the Montefiore Medical Center to identify both patient- and physician-related factors that contribute to stroke misdiagnosis to develop new clinical tools to improve stroke and headache diagnostic accuracy. Dr. Liberman is an assistant professor in the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology at Einstein and an attending physician at Montefiore Health System and the Stern Stroke Center. (1K23NS107643-01)
Posted on: Thursday, July 26, 2018