"The majority of [the diagnostic errors] were preventable," a team led by Dr. Anuj Dalal of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston concluded in the study published online Tuesday in the journal ...

A diagnosis identifies a patient’s health problem and is a key to accessing the care and treatment they need. A diagnostic error is the failure to establish a ...

“Diagnostic ... errors came from things like failure to close the loop on reporting test results,” he said. “That does happen, and it’s horrible when it happens. But in one study we ...