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.

A new study finds that nearly 6% of the estimated 130 million people who go to US emergency rooms every year are misdiagnosed, which translates to about 1 in 18 patients getting the wrong diagnosis.

Medical Diagnostic Errors Lead to Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths in US Each Year A new study sheds light on the catastrophic effects of misdiagnoses.

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.

The study represents the largest assessment of diagnostic errors in which physicians reviewed each medical record. It appears Jan. 8, 2024, in JAMA Internal Medicine .

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 ...

The research was drawn from a pool of more than 24,000 hospitalized adults who were transferred to the ICU on their second hospital day or died in the hospital between Jan. 1, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2019.

After adjusting these data with respect to the number of US pathologists in each year, the diagnostic workload per pathologist rose by 41.73% (from 92.81 to 131.54) during this 10-year time frame.

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 ...