Search results for "Diagnostic Error"
Hospitalists offer lessons from past diagnostic successes, errors
Interviews with 24 experienced hospitalists revealed five themes from their thoughts on improving diagnostics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/07/hospitalists-offer-lessons-from-past-diagnostic-successes-errors.htm
7 Feb 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
Measuring hospitalist busyness
Busy hospitalists list fewer differential diagnoses. A researcher ponders the implications for diagnostic error.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/06/measuring-hospitalist-busyness.htm
6 Dec 2023
Replace diagnostic errors with excellence
Five strategies can help hospitalists achieve diagnostic excellence, a researcher says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/24/free/replace-diagnostic-errors-with-excellence.htm
24 May 2023
AI can diagnose hip fracture as accurately as clinicians, review finds
Machine learning models trained to diagnose hip fractures from hip or pelvic radiographs had similar diagnostic error rates as expert radiologists and surgeons, according to a new systematic review of studies based on 39,598 X-rays and 714,939 hip fractures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/22/ai-can-diagnose-hip-fracture-as-accurately-as-clinicians-review-finds.htm
22 Mar 2023
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
New rules for diagnosis
Experts propose diagnostic competencies and principles.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/new-rules-for-diagnosis.htm
15 Jan 2019
Debates over sepsis and immigration
This issue brings you controversies in sepsis care and our first-ever Twitter chat.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jan 2019
Discover and defeat your diagnostic errors
Experts explain the causes and solutions for common mistakes in diagnosis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/diagnostic-errors.htm
15 Jul 2017
C. diff and Hospital Medicine 2017
Conference coverage of cirrhosis, geriatrics, high-value care, diagnostic error, and radiology.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jul 2017