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 ...
A new study by the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, found that a significant proportion of Parkinson's disease diagnoses are later corrected. Up to one in six 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 ...
In 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a 444-page report, “Improving Diagnosis in Health Care,” to bring attention to an important problem: the frequency and severity of mistaken diagnoses in ...