Diagnostic errors in acute dizziness and vertigo contribute to high health care costs and poor patient outcomes, primarily due to insufficient clinician training in effective bedside examination skills. A critical barrier to improvement is the lack of scalable, high-quality training solutions. This article advocates for integration of technology to address this knowledge-to-practice gap....
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Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
No actionable immediate practice change — this article advocates for technology-enhanced education programs to reduce diagnostic errors; clinicians should seek structured bedside examination training as a best practice, but no specific tool is ready for direct adoption.
Diagnostic errors in acute dizziness and vertigo remain common and costly; technology-enhanced education could be a scalable solution to close the training gap across specialties including audiology.
- 01Focuses on reducing clinician diagnostic errors in acute dizziness and vertigo through technology-based education.
- 02Emphasises bedside examination training as the core skill to be improved.
- 03Published in Neurologic Clinics as part of a vestibular technology series.
- 04Relevant to audiologists, neurologists, and emergency physicians involved in vestibular care.
Technology-based vestibular education can reduce clinician diagnostic errors in acute dizziness and vertigo.
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- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ncl.2026.07.019.
- Journal
- Neurologic Clinics
- Publication type
- review
- Evidence level
- 5
- Population
- Clinicians (across specialties) diagnosing acute dizziness and vertigo
- Intervention
- Technology-based vestibular education strategies
Primary outcomes
Reduction in diagnostic errors for acute dizziness and vertigo; Improvement in bedside examination competency