[20/01 12:12 PM] Dr Vivekanshu: Diagnostic error(DE) can be defined as a diagnosis that is missed, wrong or delayed, as detected by some subsequent definitive test or finding. The ensuing harm results from the delay or failure to treat a condition present when the working diagnosis was wrong or unknown, or from treatment provided for a condition not actually present.--“Overall, DE have been underappreciated and under-recognized because they’re difficult to measure and keep track of owing to the frequent gap between the time the error occurs and when it’s detected,”
For example, patients with severe dizziness are misdiagnosed with benign inner ear conditions instead of stroke for a different set of reasons than an infection is missed due to misreading laboratory tests. Checklists may prevent misdiagnosis of some conditions, but not others.
[20/01 12:12 PM] Dr Vivekanshu: Diagnostic Errors More Common, Costly And Harmful Than Treatment Mistakes - In reviewing 25 years of U.S. malpractice claim payouts, Johns Hopkins researchers found that diagnostic errors — not surgical mistakes or medication overdoses — accounted for the largest fraction of claims, the most severe patient harm, and the highest total of penalty payouts --Diagnosis-related payments amounted to $38.8 billion between 1986 and 2010, they found — researchers estimate the number of patients suffering misdiagnosis-related, potentially preventable, significant permanent injury or death annually in the United States ranges from 80,000 to 160,000.
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