Until you get objective easy tests for stroke this will continue to occur. One of these 17 ways still need to be be proven for fast and objective diagnosis.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Strokes/45143?
A couple of incriminating sentences from the article.
About one in every 10 of those potential misses were ED visits that
ended with a discharge diagnosis of headache or dizziness, and those
were considered probable missed strokes, the researchers reported online
in Diagnosis.
Several
types of patients, including those younger than 45, women, and those
from minority groups, had an increased likelihood of experiencing a
missed stroke.
Stroke is commonly missed diagnosis, with one study showing that
"preventable deaths from stroke are attributed to diagnostic error over
30 times more often than deaths from myocardial infarction," according
to the authors.
Non-traditional stroke symptoms have been
associated with a greater likelihood of missed diagnosis, but less
information is available on demographic or healthcare system factors
that might predispose to a missed stroke.
No decent solution to the problem was provided.
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