The causes and prevention of diagnostic errors in medicine

Diagnostic Error in Medicine - De Gruyter

Background: Research priorities related to diagnostic errors have increasingly focused on systems and provider-related factors. Meanwhile, ...

The Impact of Diagnostic Errors in Healthcare - RCM&D

Incomplete or inaccurate patient information and having limited time with patients are also major factors that can lead to error. The diagnostic ...

Prevalence and Causes of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized ...

In the hospital setting, work burden, patient acuity, and technology (such as electronic health records [EHRs] and multiple “alerting” systems) ...

Core Elements of Hospital Diagnostic Excellence (DxEx) - CDC

Interpreting the combined output of diagnostic testing across the fields of imaging, pathology, clinical laboratory medicine, genomics, medical ...

Understanding diagnostic errors in medicine: a lesson from aviation

Despite the current progress in patient safety research, the understanding of such errors and how to prevent them is inadequate. Preliminary research suggests ...

Understanding Diagnostic Error – The First Step in Safeguarding ...

Members of the healthcare team have both a professional and moral obligation to ensure patient safety through the reduction and prevention ...

Three Tips to Avoid Common Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care

In interviews with Medscape Medical News, experts who have studied the root causes of diagnostic error suggested primary care clinicians focus ...

Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care: Lessons Learned

In practice, the most common cognitive error is premature closure of the diagnostic process, in which the physician may not even consider the correct diagnosis ...

Preventing Diagnosis-Related Communication Errors

Specific, detailed, and timely documentation is essential to the diagnostic process. Not only does it ensure that all members of the healthcare ...

Preventing an incorrect diagnosis starts in the classroom

“The class is totally unique, giving undergraduate medical students a chance to learn about diagnostic error and think about these things while ...

Overconfidence as a Cause of Diagnostic Error in Medicine

surveyed patients and physicians on the extent to which they or a member of their family had experienced medical errors, defined as mistakes that “result in ...

Diagnostic Error - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Diagnostic error refers to the failure to establish an accurate and timely explanation of a patient's health problem or to communicate that explanation to the ...

Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Diagnostic errors

Diagnosis is one of the most important tasks performed by primary care providers. Diagnostic errors can lead to patient harm from wrong or delayed testing or ...

a teaching system to help reduce diagnostic errors in primary care

Conversely, diagnostic errors occur when the correct medical knowledge is either not acquired, or not applied during the consultation; when the correct ...

Preventing Medical Errors: 7 Things Every Provider Needs to Know

The Joint Commission has determined that the top three root causes of significant medical errors responsible for patient harm or death are 1) human error, 2 ...

Cognitive and System Factors Contributing to Diagnostic Errors in ...

For example, a text search of the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human [21], which focused on the importance of medical error, found the term ...

Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported ...

... causes, and prevention of such errors, we surveyed clinicians to solicit perceived cases of missed and delayed diagnoses. METHODS A 6-item written survey ...

Medical Diagnostic Errors Caused by Technology

About 46% were ordering errors by the healthcare providers, which were failures or delays in ordering the correct medical test. That same ...

Diagnostic errors: Why they happen and how to prevent them

This paper looks to do two things: Firstly, to change not just the terminology but also, the narrative, in which incorrect diagnoses are ...