The Institute of Medicine — now called the National Academy of Medicine — last year put out a report saying that most Americans will fall victim to at least one ...

In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...

Harmful diagnostic errors may be occurring in as many as 1 in every 14 (7%) hospital patients—at least those receiving general medical care—suggest the findings of a single centre study in the US, ...

Claims data point to missed diagnoses, weak documentation and supervision gaps as core exposure themes amid a tougher US ...

Diagnostic errors are common in hospitals and are largely preventable, according to a new observational study led by Anuj K. Dalal, MD, from the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and ...

A survey published in JAMA Internal Medicine examined residents’ diagnostic error rates, finding diagnostic errors occur in up to 15 percent of patient encounters ...

A look at how healthcare organizations are working to improve diagnostic accuracy. This article first appeared in the October 2016 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. Children's Hospital Colorado, ...

A new study from researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with researchers at the University of California San Francisco, has shed light on the rate and impact of diagnostic ...

The Leapfrog Group unveiled a series of recommendations Thursday for how hospitals can improve patient safety by decreasing diagnostic errors, as it moves toward rating hospitals on those errors and ...

Most of the reported diagnostic errors (79.9 percent) took place in the hospital setting. While more than half of the participants said that they had reported the incident to the institution where the ...

Objective Diagnostic errors lead to preventable hospital morbidity and mortality. ICU patients may be at particularly high risk for misdiagnosis. Little is known about misdiagnosis in pediatrics, ...

A new study shows that approximately 371,000 people die and 424,000 sustain permanent disabilities due to diagnostic error, including brain damage, blindness, loss of limbs or organs or metastasized ...