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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harmful diagnostic errors may be occurring in as ... general medical care - suggest the findings of a single center study in the US, published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety.

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. The study ...

(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 ...

"The majority of [the diagnostic errors] were preventable," a team led by Dr. Anuj Dalal of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston concluded in the study published online Oct. 1 in the journal BMJ ...