Becker's Healthcare October 2, 2024
Among 9,147 hospitalized patients who received general medical care, an estimated 653 experienced a harmful diagnostic error, according to research published in BMJ.
The study, led by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, analyzed cases of adult patients who either transferred to an intensive care unit, died within 90 days of admission, had complex clinical events or did not meet those criteria.
Among 675 randomly sampled cases, 7.2% of the diagnostic errors were harmful, 6.1% were...
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