1 month | Delay in hospital admission in neonate with respiratory distress | Pneumonia |
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2 months | Failure to recognise severity of respiratory infection | Pneumonia secondary to pertussis |
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4 months | Breathlessness attributed to bronchiolitis in child with congenital heart disease | Heart failure |
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7 months | Failure to administer pneumococcal vaccine on request | Pneumococcal meningitis |
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8 months | Failure to recognise severity of secondary infection in chickenpox | Septicaemia |
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9 months | Failure to administer pneumococcal vaccine on request | Pneumococcal septicaemia |
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1 year | Inadequate safety netting | Pneumococcal meningitis |
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1 year | Failure to recognise severe dehydration | E. coli diarrhoea |
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3 years | Cough and fever diagnosed as ‘throat infection’ | Empyema and septicaemia |
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6 years | Vomiting and pallor diagnosed as ‘viral infection’ | Viral pericarditis |
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8 years | Failure to attend follow-up GP appointment following asthma exacerbation | Severe acute asthma |
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8 years | Myalgia and fever diagnosed as ‘flu’ | Pneumococcal meningitis |
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8 years | Repeated failure to recognise severity of infection over 7 days | Viral pneumonia |
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12 years | Failure to recognise importance of respiratory symptoms | Staphylococcal pneumonia |
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14 years | Exceptionally reported from quality indicators for failure to attend | Acute asthma |
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15 years | Failure to follow up poor asthma control | Acute asthma |
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16 years | Prescribed epilepsy medication had run out | Drowned in bath during seizure |
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16 years | Severe acute infection diagnosed and treated as asthma | Pneumonia |