{"id":460,"date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/hospital-missed-chance-to-diagnose-ebola-patient\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:39:24","slug":"hospital-missed-chance-to-diagnose-ebola-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/hospital-missed-chance-to-diagnose-ebola-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital missed chance to diagnose Ebola patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A patient who showed up at a Dallas area hospital complaining of fever and headache and was misdiagnosed as a potential Ebola case has passed away. However, in the wake of the man\u2019s death, the hospital is still under fire for missing the diagnosis. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\/story\/dallas-hospital-missed-chance-contain-ebola\/2014-10-02\" target=\"_blank\">fiercehealthcare.com <\/a>report, the man was initially diagnosed with a low-grade viral infection and was sent home with an antibiotic, despite claims from his sister that he told hospital workers that he had just come back from Liberia.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that a critical piece of information was not shared with healthcare workers, who (in hindsight) should have isolated him to prevent a further outbreak. It is reported that the man may have come into contact with nearly 80 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had sent hospitals a special checklist to prepare for potential Ebola cases. Indeed, hospitals are on the lookout for additional cases. Some are even asking every patient coming to an emergency room or for a scheduled appointment about recent travel overseas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/hospital-missed-chance-to-diagnose-ebola-patient\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Hospital missed chance to diagnose Ebola patient\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patient who showed up at a Dallas area hospital complaining of fever and headache and was misdiagnosed as a potential Ebola case has passed away. However, in the wake of the man\u2019s death, the hospital is still under fire for missing the diagnosis. According to a fiercehealthcare.com report, the man was initially diagnosed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failure-to-diagnose","tag-failure-to-diagnose"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hospital missed chance to diagnose Ebola patient &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; October 9, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hospital missed chance to diagnose Ebola patient - Failure to Diagnose - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/hospital-missed-chance-to-diagnose-ebola-patient\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Hospital missed chance to diagnose Ebola patient &#8212; 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