"Our study does not tell us the overall frequency of diagnostic errors in the hospital, but it does tell us that there's more we can be doing to prevent these types of errors from occurring," said ...

"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 Tuesday in the journal ...

A diagnosis identifies a patient’s health problem and is a key to accessing the care and treatment they need. A diagnostic error is the failure to establish a ...

The most frequent cause of medical malpractice allegations against physicians is a failure to diagnose patients or a delay of diagnosis, while for gastroenterologists, diagnostic errors top the list ...

Examples of errors that happened in a consultation with a GP were problems with ordering or correctly understanding a diagnostic test. Dr Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Research Fellow at the NIHR GM PSTRC who ...

As either a patient yourself, or a caregiver for a loved one, you can take some simple steps that might help avoid a misdiagnosis – one of the leading causes of death in the United States.

When making diagnostic decisions, radiologists and other physicians may rely too much on artificial intelligence (AI) when it points out a specific area of interest in an X-ray, according to a new ...