Poor handoffs, lack of feedback, limited support, and a complex diagnostic process contribute to the thousands of misdiagnosis-related hospital deaths each year. A coalition of more than 40 patient ...

Healthcare organizations have focused on improving patient outcomes for years. Lately, however, the impact of diagnostic errors on outcomes has come under more intense scrutiny. Some research suggests ...

Diagnostic errors among hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) were fairly common, a retrospective cohort study suggested. In a random sample of over 2,400 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It is estimated that at least 12 million people in the United States are affected by diagnostic errors each year ...

They used the process to estimate retrospectively the prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors in a randomly selected sample of 675 hospital patients out of a total of 9147 in receipt of general ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Among the 160 cases of diagnostic errors, most may have ...