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Herein, we present the case of an infant in whom irritability following minor head trauma was incorrectly diagnosed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_dx-2025-0174_abs_002\">\n                    <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A 1-year-6-month-old boy presented to\u00a0the emergency department with irritability following minor head trauma. The initial evaluation focused on the head trauma, and the child\u2019s irritability was attributed to an\u00a0upper respiratory tract infection and the effect of the unfamiliar examination environment. The patient was discharged, but several hours later, he returned because of right thigh swelling, which revealed a femoral fracture. Root cause analysis using a fishbone diagram identified the contributing factors to the delayed diagnosis as the vague, clinical presentation of pediatric trauma, multiple cognitive biases, and the role of family concerns in clinical reasoning.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_dx-2025-0174_abs_003\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In preverbal children, behavioral changes, such as a sudden refusal to walk, may indicate a serious pathology. Clinicians should avoid anchoring, perform a thorough, whole-body assessment, and take the family\u2019s concerns into consideration to ensure diagnostic accuracy in cases of pediatric trauma.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1515\/dx-2025-0174","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,5]],"date-time":"2026-07-05T03:55:44Z","timestamp":1783223744000},"page":"150-156","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Lessons in clinical reasoning: a case of a boy who continued crying after falling"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-3953-4674","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mizuka","family":"Fu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Pediatrics , Tokyo Metropolitan Children\u2019s Medical Center , Fuchu, Tokyo , Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-8725-6277","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Toshiki","family":"Nakamura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Pediatrics , Tokyo Metropolitan Children\u2019s Medical Center , Fuchu, Tokyo , Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-2851-3009","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shun","family":"Kishibe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Medicine , Tokyo Metropolitan Children\u2019s Medical Center , Fuchu, Tokyo , Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9677-6000","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yusuke","family":"Hagiwara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Medicine , Tokyo Metropolitan Children\u2019s Medical Center , Fuchu, Tokyo , Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3788-487X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Taro","family":"Shimizu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Diagnostic and Generalist Medicine , Dokkyo Medical University Hospital , Tochigi , Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3904-7087","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hiroshi","family":"Sakakibara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Pediatrics , Tokyo Metropolitan Children\u2019s Medical Center , Fuchu, Tokyo , Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026080614002534729_j_dx-2025-0174_ref_001","unstructured":"Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care; Board on Health Care Services; Institute of Medicine. 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