A Brief Discussion Regarding the Clinical Case Analysis of Staphylococcus Aureus, Influenza, and Tuberculosis via the CPC Archives Across the Last Century

Abstract

Over the last century, the Clinical Pathological Conferences (CPC) have enabled the Case Records database to provide valuable information regarding the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. Diseases involving Staphylococcus aureus, Influenza, or Tuberculosis are some of the most prominent infectious diseases that have appeared throughout the database, and which were investigated. Cases with a final diagnosis for each disease were chosen and the amount tracked and compared to case data from the CDC. The average time to diagnosis and time in hospital were analyzed and used to see how our understanding of each disease had evolved over the past 100 years. Over the course of the span, the time for diagnosis and time in hospital decreased overall for all three diseases, but with some outliers present. Additionally, patient survivability also increased. Furthermore, the usage of AI models in medical diagnosis was commented on, and which presents a potentially revolutionary ability to positively affect the CPC/Case Records as it enters its second century.