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 ...

Five areas of process breakdowns were associated with diagnostic errors in primary care, with most process breakdowns occurring during the patient visit, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine ...

Harmful diagnostic errors occur in an estimated one of every 14 hospitalized general medicine patients, which could include a large percentage of older adults, according to a study published online ...

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 ...

Healthcare organizations have focused on improving patient outcomes for years. Lately, however, the impact of diagnostic errors on outcomes has come under more intense scrutiny. Some research suggests ...

Figure 1 depicts the ways in which implicit bias (including stereotypes) that leads to false assumptions about an individual patient, combined with inattention to systemic and structural factors ...

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 ...

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool that physicians can use to help diagnose their patients and has great potential to improve accuracy, efficiency and patient safety, it has its ...