Examining care transitions in hospitalized patients revealed lower diagnostic error rates compared with traditional methods, ...
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 ...
Among 9,147 hospitalized patients who received general medical care, an estimated 653 experienced a harmful diagnostic error, according to research published in BMJ. The study, led by researchers ...
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 ...
"In the majority of cases, the diagnostic process works well," researchers told Newsweek. "But sometimes things do break down." ...
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 ...
As many as one in 14 patients suffer harm due to diagnostic errors while in hospital, and most of these could be prevented, a ...
This session began with a discussion of a patient presentation pediatric hospitalists are very familiar with—a toddler with ...
As the debate about the utility of artificial intelligence in medicine rages on, a fascinating new study has been released ... a critical skill in preventing diagnostic errors.
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 ...
"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 ...