Diagnostic Errors Are Common in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults

A study of seriously ill patients from academic medical centers across the country has found that nearly a quarter had a delayed or missed ...

23 percent of the patients had a delayed or missed diagnosis, according to an AHRQ-funded study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were ...

Meaning Among hospitalized adults transferred to the ICU or who died in the hospital, diagnostic errors were common, harmful, and had underlying ...

Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were ...

In this cohort study, diagnostic errors in hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to the ICU were common and associated with ...

Diagnostic Errors Common in Hospital Deaths, ICU Transfers, Study ...

Diagnostic errors among hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) were fairly common, a retrospective cohort study ...

Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were ...

Question How often do diagnostic errors happen in adult patients who are transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) or die in the hospital, what causes the ...

Introduction - Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department - NCBI

There are many reasons why the ED may be the most challenging clinical setting for diagnosis. The breadth of clinical presentations is extremely wide, with ...

Patients are hurt by diagnostic errors more often than you think - Axios

Hospitalized patients who died or were transferred to the ICU during their stay experienced a diagnostic error nearly a quarter of the time — ...

Where Do We Go Wrong? - Annals of Emergency Medicine

Harmful diagnostic errors are not solely present in patients who are transferred to an ICU or die. However, it is reasonable to suggest that harmful errors are ...

Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA

Because the overall burden of serious misdiagnosis-related harms is quite large, improving diagnosis of dangerous diseases most often responsible—stroke, sepsis ...

Data analysis reveals common errors that prevent patients from getting

A new data analysis from ECRI, a global patient safety nonprofit, found that issues processing medical tests, delays in referrals, and miscommunication among ...

Incidence of Diagnostic Errors Among Unexpectedly Hospitalized ...

Results: A total of 146 patients were analyzed. A final diagnosis was confirmed for 138 patients and was observed in the differential diagnosis ...

New research identifies high rates and common causes of ...

They found that 550 of the patients in their cohort (23%) experienced a diagnostic error in the hospital. Of these, 486 (17% of all patients) ...

Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were ...

While substantial efforts to improve diagnosis have been made within the patient safety movement, diagnostic errors remain common [6] . The ...

Minimizing the Risk of Diagnostic Errors in Acute Care for Older Adults

Previous research indicates that older adults are particularly vulnerable to missed diagnoses. For instance, 12.5% of older adults hospitalized from emergency ...

Diagnostic errors in hospitalized adults who died or were transferred ...

Diagnostic errors can result in significant morbidity and mortality. This large cohort study reviewed the health records of 2428 adult inpatients who were ...

Utilizing Care Transitions for Diagnostic Error Detection in Hospital ...

Background: Diagnostic errors are common, yet the optimal approach to identifying them remains elusive (1). Previous research used triggers ...

Core Elements of Hospital Diagnostic Excellence (DxEx) - CDC

While several definitions have been proposed and used to describe the diagnostic process and "diagnostic error," we use the Agency for ...

Prevalence and Causes of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized ...

Most common diagnostic process faults contributing to DE were problems with clinical assessment, testing choices, history taking, and physical examination.

The frequency of diagnostic errors in outpatient care: estimations ...

Results Combining estimates from the three studies yielded a rate of outpatient diagnostic errors of 5.08%, or approximately 12 million US adults every year.