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BMJ Quality & Safety, 2020
Background Diagnostic error is commonly defined as a missed, delayed or wrong diagnosis and has been described as among the most important patient safety hazards.
C. Gunderson +8 more
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Background Diagnostic error is commonly defined as a missed, delayed or wrong diagnosis and has been described as among the most important patient safety hazards.
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Annals of Internal Medicine, 1957
Excerpt The cornerstone of internal medicine is correctness of diagnosis. In recent years great emphasis has been placed on the development of diagnostic laboratory tests.
R H, GRUVER, E D, FREIS
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Excerpt The cornerstone of internal medicine is correctness of diagnosis. In recent years great emphasis has been placed on the development of diagnostic laboratory tests.
R H, GRUVER, E D, FREIS
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Identifying trigger concepts to screen emergency department visits for diagnostic errors
Diagnosis, 2020Objectives The diagnostic process is a vital component of safe and effective emergency department (ED) care. There are no standardized methods for identifying or reliably monitoring diagnostic errors in the ED, impeding efforts to enhance diagnostic ...
P. Mahajan +16 more
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Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 2013
Diagnostic errors are the most common errors in primary care. Diagnostic errors have been found to be the leading cause of malpractice litigation, accounting for twice as many claims and settled cases as medication errors. Diagnostic error is common, harmful, costly, and very critical to the patient-safety issues in health care.
Satid, Thammasitboon +2 more
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Diagnostic errors are the most common errors in primary care. Diagnostic errors have been found to be the leading cause of malpractice litigation, accounting for twice as many claims and settled cases as medication errors. Diagnostic error is common, harmful, costly, and very critical to the patient-safety issues in health care.
Satid, Thammasitboon +2 more
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Academic Emergency Medicine, 2002
AbstractOne of the most complex and challenging tasks facing physicians is the need to make a diagnosis. Recent research has focused attention on medical errors alleged to have resulted in increased patient morbidity and mortality. A number of authorities have suggested methods to track and prevent errors. Most have dealt with systems' changes and fail‐
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AbstractOne of the most complex and challenging tasks facing physicians is the need to make a diagnosis. Recent research has focused attention on medical errors alleged to have resulted in increased patient morbidity and mortality. A number of authorities have suggested methods to track and prevent errors. Most have dealt with systems' changes and fail‐
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Handshake antimicrobial stewardship as a model to recognize and prevent diagnostic errors
Diagnosis, 2020Objectives Few studies describe the impact of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) on recognizing and preventing diagnostic errors. Handshake stewardship (HS-ASP) is a novel ASP model that prospectively reviews hospital-wide antimicrobial usage with
Justin B. Searns +7 more
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Toward the eradication of medical diagnostic errors.
ScienceThe medical community does not broadcast the problem, but there are many studies that have reinforced a serious issue with diagnostic errors. A recent study concluded: "We estimate that nearly 800,000 Americans die or are permanently disabled by ...
E. Topol
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The Implication of Diagnostic Errors
Continuum, 2017Diagnostic errors are mistakes in the diagnostic process that lead to a misdiagnosis, a missed diagnosis, or a delayed diagnosis. While the past decade's impetus to improve patient safety has focused on medication errors, health care-associated infections, and postsurgical complications, diagnostic errors have received comparatively less attention ...
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Critical Care Medicine, 2019
OBJECTIVE Diagnostic errors are a source of significant morbidity and mortality but understudied in the critically ill. We sought to characterize the frequency, causes, consequences, and risk factors of diagnostic errors among unplanned ICU admissions.
Paul A. Bergl +4 more
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OBJECTIVE Diagnostic errors are a source of significant morbidity and mortality but understudied in the critically ill. We sought to characterize the frequency, causes, consequences, and risk factors of diagnostic errors among unplanned ICU admissions.
Paul A. Bergl +4 more
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Journal of patient safety, 2019
Objective To create an operational definition and framework to study diagnostic error in the emergency department setting. Methods We convened a 17-member multidisciplinary panel with expertise in general and pediatric emergency medicine, nursing ...
P. Mahajan +16 more
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Objective To create an operational definition and framework to study diagnostic error in the emergency department setting. Methods We convened a 17-member multidisciplinary panel with expertise in general and pediatric emergency medicine, nursing ...
P. Mahajan +16 more
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