A comprehensive study of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older reveals that emergency room diagnostic errors occur in approximately 3.2% of serious medical emergencies, affecting roughly 1 in every ...

The following first appeared in the Substack of Eric Topol, MD, called Ground Truths. Eric Topol, MD The medical community does not broadcast the problem, but there are many studies that have ...

In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...

Objective Diagnostic errors lead to preventable hospital morbidity and mortality. ICU patients may be at particularly high risk for misdiagnosis. Little is known about misdiagnosis in pediatrics, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It is estimated that at least 12 million people in the United States are affected by diagnostic errors each year ...