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 ...

March 24, 2010 — Electronic clinical documentation may help prevent diagnostic errors, according to a perspective published in the March 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "The United ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Misdiagnosis is a somewhat common phenomenon in medicine, occurring in about 10% of cases. Physicians can teach ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It is estimated that at least 12 million people in the United States are affected by diagnostic errors each year ...

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool that physicians can use to help diagnose their patients and has ...

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 ...