In today’s Health Alert, a new study suggests that 1 in 14 hospital patients may fall victim to harmful diagnostic mistakes, and most of these errors could have been prevented. Hundreds of ...
"In the majority of cases, the diagnostic process works well," researchers told Newsweek. "But sometimes things do break down." ...
Examining care transitions in hospitalized patients revealed lower diagnostic error rates compared with traditional methods, ...
Diagnostic Excellence in U.S. Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action, a new issue brief from AHRQ, addresses urgent challenges encountered in U.S. rural healthcare to achieve diagnostic excellence, with a ...
As many as one in 14 patients suffer harm due to diagnostic errors while in hospital, and most of these could be prevented, a ...
Researchers led by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston also found that most of those mistakes can be prevented, noting: "It is paramount to note that it is not one individual or process that is at ...
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 ...
(HealthDay News) — Harmful diagnostic errors (DEs) occur in an estimated one of every 14 hospitalized general medicine patients, according to a study published online Oct. 1 in BMJ Quality & Safety.
A team led by Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research in California examined health records and insurance claims for 12.2 million Americans for autism diagnosis trends.
This session began with a discussion of a patient presentation pediatric hospitalists are very familiar with—a toddler with ...
At U.S. medical schools, interventional radiologists continue to earn more than diagnostic radiologists, though the compensation divide is narrowing, according to a study published Oct. 21 in the ...
INOVIQ (ASX:IIQ) highlighted progress in its diagnostic and therapeutic programs in its quarterly update for the period ...