Background Missed vascular events, infections, and cancers account for~ 75% of serious
harms from diagnostic errors. Just 15 diseases from these “Big Three” categories account for …

Background Diagnostic errors cause substantial preventable harm, but national estimates
vary widely from 40,000 to 4 million annually. This cross-sectional analysis of a large …

Background Diagnostic errors cause substantial preventable harms worldwide, but rigorous
estimates for total burden are lacking. We previously estimated diagnostic error and serious …

Background We sought to characterise the frequency, health outcomes and economic
consequences of diagnostic errors in the USA through analysis of closed, paid malpractice …

Background The public health burden associated with diagnostic errors is likely enormous,
with some estimates suggesting millions of individuals are harmed each year in the USA …

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety specific issues; and (5) patient-
related factors. HCOs might find it challenging to invest resources to identify and analyze …

Background Diagnostic error is commonly defined as a missed, delayed or wrong diagnosis
and has been described as among the most important patient safety hazards. Diagnostic …

Objectives Diagnostic errors are a known patient safety concern across all clinical settings,
including the emergency department (ED). We conducted a systematic review to determine …

Diagnostic errors have emerged as a serious patient safety problem but they are hard to
detect and complex to define. At the research summit of the 2013 Diagnostic Error in …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Although health care organizations (HCOs) are intensely
focused on improving the safety of health care, efforts to date have almost exclusively …