Chief Healthcare Executive July 24, 2024
The Leapfrog Group issued a new report to help protect patient safety, and outlines ways to help clinicians avoid mistakes and deal with them when they occur.
Some adverse events harming patients in hospitals can be traded to mistakes in the diagnosis, analysts say.
The National Academies issued a landmark report in 2015 highlighting the dangers of diagnostic errors, an area which hasn’t always received great attention. The report suggested that diagnostic errors contribute to 10% of patient deaths.
The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization advocating for patient safety, is looking to bring greater attention to diagnostic errors. The group released a new report Tuesday that’s intended to spur changes in hospitals, and it’s a sequel to an earlier report...
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