Researchers found that thousands of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) did not follow the traditional trajectory associated with the disease, suggesting a possible incorrect ...

Survival in Men With Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer Treated With Hormone Therapy: A Quantitative Systematic Review Errors in cancer diagnosis are likely the most harmful and expensive types of ...

In 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a 444-page report, “Improving Diagnosis in Health Care,” to bring attention to an important problem: the frequency and severity of mistaken diagnoses in ...

Progress toward improving diagnosis and reducing diagnostic error will be significantly hampered without a dedicated focus on research. A primary reason that ...

Misdiagnoses in the U.S. lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and major disabilities each year, according to a recent report from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Maryland. Each year, an ...

WASHINGTON – A major report predicts most people will experience at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis in their lifetime. Getting the right diagnosis, at the right time, is key to good health care.

A framework of strategies has been developed around five dimensions of inpatient diagnostic errors. Researchers say their work is also applicable to other patient populations. Researchers at Baylor ...

A funny thing happened on the way to the first Diagnostic Errors in Medicine Conference, from which Bob Wachter’s thoughtful commentary in the September issue of Health Affairs is drawn. A group of us ...

FIGURE C-1 Venn diagram illustrating relationships between errors in the diagnostic process; missed, delayed, or wrong diagnoses; and adverse patient outcomes. Group A represents adverse outcomes ...