Table 3.
Cause of false positive errors identified by the physician chart review | Number of errors |
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Previously enrolled in the trial/therapy at a different institution | 3 |
New diagnosis treated with standard of care therapy due to high likelihood of survival | 4 |
Correct diagnosis but in a different stage of the disease (e.g. high risk versus low risk) | 5 |
Correct diagnosis but incorrect relapse status (e.g. relapsed versus non-relapsed, remission 1 versus remission 2) | 5 |
Wrong diagnosis, confusion between sub-categories of diseases (e.g. ALL versus AML, T cell versus Pre-B cell and different types of renal tumors) | 13 |
Wrong diagnosis, other reasons | 12 |