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 ...

The incidence of central nervous system cancer in the US remains largely unchanged from 1990 to 2021, while disability ...

A study found that a significant proportion of Parkinson's disease diagnoses are later corrected. Up to one in six diagnoses changed after ten years of follow-up, and the majority of new diagnoses ...

Analysis of 6,000+ closed medical malpractice claims reveals office-based care is a high-risk setting for missed diagnoses, particularly cancer Coverys, a leading provider of medical professional ...

Sofi is a doctoral researcher at Virginia Tech specializing in artificial intelligence and health care. In a landmark study from Kenya by Penda Health and OpenAI, an artificial intelligence “safety ...

For decades, psychiatrists have treated psychosis as if it were separate conditions. People experiencing hallucinations and delusions might be diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe ...