Lower Diagnostic Error Rates Found Among Hospitalized Patients ...

Examining care transitions in hospitalized patients revealed lower diagnostic error rates compared with traditional methods, ...

Examining care transitions in hospitalized patients revealed lower diagnostic error rates compared with traditional methods, highlighting the ...

Incidence of Diagnostic Errors Among Unexpectedly Hospitalized ...

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

Diagnostic errors occur in over 7% of hospitalized patients receiving ...

Harmful diagnostic errors may occur in one in 14 hospital patients, the findings of a retrospective cohort study published in BMJ Quality ...

Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A Systematic ...

Although estimated ED error rates are low (and comparable to those found in other clinical settings), the number of patients potentially impacted is large.

Diagnostic errors affecting one in fourteen hospital patients

Harmful diagnostic errors may be occurring in as many as 1 in every 14 (7%) hospital patients-;at least those receiving general medical care-;suggest the ...

Research assesses rates, causes of diagnostic errors

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

Diagnostic error increases mortality and length of hospital stay in ...

Diagnostic discrepancies are a relevant healthcare problem in patients admitted through the emergency room because they occur in every ninth patient.

Report Highlights Public Health Impact of Serious Harms From ...

The overall average error rate across diseases was estimated at 11.1%, but the rate ranges widely from 1.5% for heart attack to 62% for spinal ...

Hospital Diagnostic Errors May Affect 7% of Patients - Medscape

Dalal and his colleagues found that 1 in 14 general medicine patients (7%) suffer harm due to diagnostic errors, and up to 85% of these cases ...

Diagnostic Errors | PSNet

In the Harvard Medical Practice Study, diagnostic error accounted for 17% of preventable errors in hospitalized patients, and a systematic review of autopsy ...

Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Patients - MDEdge

A recent systematic review and meta-analysis of 22 hospital admission studies found a pooled rate of 0.7% (95% CI, 0.5%-1.1%) for harmful ...

Diagnostic error – What physicians and hospitals can do to reduce ...

Whether in private practice or in hospital, physicians must be advocates for keeping patients ... find in the hospital survey, but that ...

The incidence of diagnostic error in medicine - BMJ Quality & Safety

Most cases in autopsy series derive from inpatient settings, but they also include deaths from the emergency department which, for many reasons, is considered ...

Diagnostic Error | PSNet

Diagnostic errors are widely acknowledged as a common patient safety problem, but difficulty in measuring these errors has made it challenging ...

Prevalence and Causes of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized ...

Two hundred and fifty-seven patient charts underwent review, of which 36 (14%) had a diagnostic error. Patients with and without DE were ...

Part One: Diagnosing the Problem of Diagnostic Error - Medisolv Blog

In addition to patient harm, diagnostic error can also result in system harm. Even when no and low harm errors occur, they can contribute to ...

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

[4] In a large cohort study performed on 2428 adult patients at 29 hospitals in the United States who were either transferred to intensive care ...

Using information technology to reduce diagnostic error: still a ...

Diagnostic errors are common, occurring in 5–15% of all clinical encounters and causing serious patient harm in up to 1.0% of hospital ...

Diagnostic Error in Internal Medicine - JAMA Network

In his classic studies of clinical reasoning, Elstein estimated the rate of diagnostic error to be approximately 15%, in reasonable agreement ...