HEALTH Errors in disease diagnosis lead to nearly 800,000 deaths, disabilities in US each year: study Five conditions made up a majority of all misdiagnosed cases: 'Patients must protect themselves' ...

Diagnostic errors linked to nearly 800,000 deaths or cases of permanent disability in US each year, study estimates ...

Diagnostic errors can be seriously harmful for patients. A recent study revealed that almost 800,000 Americans suffer from misdiagnoses each year, which is a worrying indicator for the US ...

This new system of care quality initiative is more resilient, helping ensure patients get timely, clinically necessary additional imaging to reduce diagnostic errors and potential harm.

BlinkLab states in its Wednesday (March 12) release that the study is the largest digital diagnostic trial for autism in the US, with its aim being to support the early detection of developmental ...

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 ...

In today’s Health Alert, a new study suggests that 1 in 14 hospital patients may fall victim to harmful diagnostic mistakes, and most of these errors could have been prevented.

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.

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 ...

“Diagnostic errors are errors of omission,” said Yang, who was not involved in the new study. “The question is: Could [the outcome] be prevented if we had done something differently earlier on?