About Diagnostic Error

In an ideal world, diagnosis would be accurate, timely, efficient, and above all, it would be safe. We don’t live in that world.  In our world, diagnosis is missed, wrong, or seriously delayed in some 10% of cases. These are diagnostic errors, and many of these will be harmful.

A brief introduction to diagnostic error can be found HERE.

A more comprehensive discussion can be found in the major report from the National Academy of Medicine on Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, which can be downloaded for free.

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