According to a September 2015 report by the non-profit Institute of Medicine, as many as 5% of Americans are misdiagnosed, and these faulty, missed, or delayed diagnoses contribute to 10% of patient deaths. For those who are not killed by these mistakes, they cause between 6 and 17 percent medical errors in hospitals. Diagnostic errors are the… Read More
Diagnostic Errors
Over a period of 25 years (1986-2010), approximately 38.8 billion dollars were paid out by physicians and their insurance companies as a result of diagnostic errors. These errors were not only “wrong diagnoses,” but also included failure to diagnose or delay in diagnosis of a medical condition. Surprisingly, diagnostic errors are more common than surgical… Read More