The paper presents a detailed analysis of errors in the diagnosis of bacteriologically negative @entity1907 in a random sample of 560 @entity1 out of all such @entity1 registered in 1993. The false diagnosis was found in 63 @entity1 i.e. in 11.3% of the sample. Among the 63 @entity1 with false diagnosis of @entity378 there were 15 cases with @entity2 , 15 cases with @entity55 and/or @entity5641 , 15 cases with disease of circulatory system with abnormal radiological of the lungs, 8 cases with old @entity378 changes in the lung considered as relapses, 4 cases of @entity4154 with @entity3616 , 3 cases of @entity370 and 1 case of @entity2381 in a post-tb cavity. The most serious errors were those related to failure in diagnosing (or of too late diagnosis) of @entity2 . These failures comprised 2.7% of @entity1 in the sample. The chance to detect a @entity2 in the sample was 2900 cases in 100,000 @entity1 and 2200 cases in 100,000 @entity1 . This chance was much higher than in general population--29x for @entity1 and 100x for @entity1 . The main source of errors was false interpretation of radiological examinations and neglect to utilise other diagnostic procedures like bronchoscopy, cytology or tomography examinations. As an outcome of the analysis authors present their recommendations for diagnostic procedures in the diagnosis of bacteriologically negative @entity1907 .

[Analysis of diagnostic errors and recommendations of diagnostic procedures in bacteriologically negative XXXX ].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['men', 'women', 'patients'] @entity55 :: ('MESH:D011014', 'Disease') :: ['pneumonia'] @entity2 :: ('MESH:D008175', 'Disease') :: ['lung cancer'] @entity5641 :: ('MESH:D010998', 'Disease') :: ['pleuritis'] @entity3616 :: ('MESH:D018549', 'Disease') :: ['organizing pneumonia'] @entity370 :: ('MESH:D012507', 'Disease') :: ['sarcoidosis'] @entity2381 :: ('MESH:D001228', 'Disease') :: ['aspergillosis'] @entity4154 :: ('MESH:D001989', 'Disease') :: ['bronchiolitis obliterans'] @entity378 :: ('MESH:D014376', 'Disease') :: ['post-tuberculosis', 'tuberculosis'] @entity1907 :: ('MESH:D014397', 'Disease') :: ['pulmonary tuberculosis']
@entity1907 :: (MESH:D014397,Disease) :: ['pulmonary tuberculosis']
