Diagnostic errors linked to nearly 800,000 deaths or cases of permanent disability in US each year, study estimates By Deidre McPhillips , CNN 5 minute read ...

An estimated 795,000 Americans become disabled or die each year due to a misdiagnosis, a new study found. Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. David Newman-Toker breaks down the findings.

Diagnostic errors pose a significant risk to patient safety, affecting an estimated twelve million US adult outpatients annually 1 and leading to an estimated 6–17 percent of all adverse events ...

In today’s Health Alert, a new study suggests that 1 in 14 hospital patients may fall victim to harmful diagnostic mistakes, and most of these errors could have been prevented.

Harmful diagnostic errors may be occurring in as many as 1 in every 14 (7%) hospital patients - at least those receiving general medical care - suggest the findings of a single center study in the ...

Study finds 1 in 14 hospitalized patients experience harmful diagnostic errors, ... The prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors: Study ... Contact Us. 1-800-417-2035.

"The majority of [the diagnostic errors] were preventable," a team led by Dr. Anuj Dalal of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston concluded in the study published online Oct. 1 in the journal BMJ ...

Diagnostic errors are likely to be occurring in as many as 1 in every 14 (7 per cent) hospital patients which requires new approaches to medical surveillance, a new study has stressed.

For the new study, a team led by Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research in California examined health records and insurance claims for 12.2 million Americans for diagnostic codes for autistic ...