Medical Economics July 17, 2019
Improving diagnoses in three areas—cancer, infections and vascular events—would help improve patient mortality rates and reduce malpractice claims, a new study finds.
The study, published in the journal Diagnosis earlier this month, suggests that a renewed focus on areas most at risk for misdiagnosis could improve patient mortality rates and reduce malpractice claims.
“Across practice settings, missed vascular events, infections and cancers account for most of the morbidity and mortality attributable to diagnostic errors,” the authors write. “Our main goal was to identify the list of top diseases that, when missed, cause serious harms.”
To accomplish that, the researchers analyzed more than 55,000 malpractice claims between 2006 and 2015, and focused on the...
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