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 following first appeared in the Substack of Eric Topol, MD, called Ground Truths. Eric Topol, MD The medical community does not broadcast the problem, but there are many studies that have ...

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 ...

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

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 ...