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 ...

Free-floating DNA carrying cancerous mutations was detected in blood three years before any other signs of cancer appeared.

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 ...

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.

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.

Of the 1,863 patients who died, diagnostic errors were judged to have contributed in 6.6% of cases (95% CI 5.3-8.2), they noted in JAMA Internal Medicine. "The main takeaways for us were the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

(CNN) — Misdiagnosis of disease or other medical conditions leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths and permanent disabilities each year in the United States, according to a report published ...