Examining care transitions in hospitalized patients revealed lower diagnostic error rates compared with traditional methods, ...
In today’s Health Alert, a new study suggests that 1 in 14 hospital patients may fall victim to harmful diagnostic mistakes, and most of these errors could have been prevented. Hundreds of ...
Diagnostic Excellence in U.S. Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action, a new issue brief from AHRQ, addresses urgent challenges encountered in U.S. rural healthcare to achieve diagnostic excellence, with a ...
"In the majority of cases, the diagnostic process works well," researchers told Newsweek. "But sometimes things do break down." ...
As many as one in 14 patients suffer harm due to diagnostic errors while in hospital, and most of these could be prevented, a ...
Researchers led by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston also found that most of those mistakes can be prevented, noting: "It is paramount to note that it is not one individual or process that is at ...
This session began with a discussion of a patient presentation pediatric hospitalists are very familiar with—a toddler with ...
Diagnostic errors are likely to be occurring in as many as 1 in every 14 (7 per cent) hospital patients which requires new approaches to medical surveillance, a new study has stressed. The study ...
A team led by Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research in California examined health records and insurance claims for 12.2 million Americans for autism diagnosis trends.
At U.S. medical schools, interventional radiologists continue to earn more than diagnostic radiologists, though the compensation divide is narrowing, according to a study published Oct. 21 in the ...
This shortage forces India’s radiologists to interpret 100+ scans daily, increasing the likelihood of fatigue-related errors.