(CNN) — Misdiagnosis of disease or other medical conditions leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths and permanent disabilities each year in the United States, according to a report published ...

To address this, we assessed the impact of a new "system of care" quality initiative to improve follow-up diagnostic imaging to reduce diagnostic errors developed by stakeholders within Mass ...

Among 675 randomly sampled cases, 7.2% of the diagnostic errors were harmful, 6.1% were preventable and 1.1% were severely harmful. Based on the sample, the researchers estimated 1 in 14 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 findings of a single centre study in the ...

References. Hardeep Singh et al., “The Frequency Of Diagnostic Errors In Outpatient Care: Estimations From Three Large Observational Studies Involving US Adult Populations,” BMJ Qual Saf 23 ...

Diagnostic errors are likely to be occurring in as many as 1 in every 14 (7 per cent) hospital patients which requires new approaches to medical surveillance, a new study has stressed.

A new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the autism diagnosis rate has increased among US children, continuing a long-term trend that experts have largely ...