Diagnostic errors linked to nearly 800,000 deaths or cases of permanent disability in US each year, study estimates By Deidre McPhillips , CNN 5 minute read ...

Misdiagnoses in the U.S. lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and major disabilities each year, according to a recent report from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Maryland. Each year, an ...

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

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 ...

The study represents the largest assessment of diagnostic errors in ... to either errors in testing, or errors in assessing patients, and this knowledge gives us new opportunities to solve these ...

In today’s Health Alert, a new study suggests that 1 in 14 hospital patients may fall victim to harmful diagnostic mistakes ... deepest lake in US, is closing for 2 years Monschau, Germany ...

Harmful diagnostic errors may occur in one in 14 hospital patients, the findings of a retrospective cohort study published in BMJ Quality & Safety suggested. Most of the errors were preventable ...

(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 ...