Search results for "Diagnostic Error"
Hospitals' uptake of recommended interventions to reduce diagnostic errors relatively low
Ensuring access to medical interpreters and radiologists was common, while convening a multidisciplinary team focused on diagnostic safety and quality and training clinicians to optimize clinical reasoning in the diagnostic process were among the least commonly implemented practices.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/08/28/hospitals-uptake-of-interventions-to-reduce-diagnostic-errors-relatively-low-survey-finds.htm
28 Aug 2024
Diagnostic error found in care of 23% of patients who died or were transferred to ICU
The most common causes of diagnostic errors were assessment and testing issues, according to an analysis of patients who were transferred to an ICU, died, or both while hospitalized with general medical conditions at any of 29 academic centers in 2019.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/17/diagnostic-error-found-in-care-of-23percent-of-patients-who-died-or-were-transferred-to-icu.htm
17 Jan 2024
Inpatient diagnoses of cellulitis by generalists frequently incorrect, review finds
Dermatology or infectious diseases specialists reversed more than a third of generalist physicians' diagnoses of cellulitis in the hospital, with statis dermatitis being the most common alternative diagnosis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/12/inpatient-diagnoses-of-cellulitis-by-generalists-frequently-incorrect-review-finds.htm
12 Oct 2022