Objective To systematically quantify the prevalence, severity, and nature of preventable
patient harm across a range of medical settings globally. Design Systematic review and …

Diagnosis is one of the most important tasks performed by primary care physicians. The
World Health Organization (WHO) recently prioritized patient safety areas in primary care …

The continuously increasing cost of the US healthcare system has received significant
attention. Central to the ideas aimed at curbing this trend is the use of technology in the form …

Importance Diagnostic errors contribute to patient harm, though few data exist to describe
their prevalence or underlying causes among medical inpatients. Objective To determine the …

Importance Diagnostic errors are an understudied aspect of ambulatory patient safety.
Objectives To determine the types of diseases missed and the diagnostic processes …

Background Errors in clinical reasoning occur in most cases in which the diagnosis is
missed, delayed or wrong. The goal of this review was to identify interventions that might …

A survey of doctors working in two large NHS hospitals identified over 120 laboratory tests,
imaging investigations and investigational procedures that they considered not to be …

Background Oversights in the physical examination are a type of medical error not easily
studied by chart review. They may be a major contributor to missed or delayed diagnosis …

Severe yield loss due to various biotic stresses like bacterial blight (BB), gall midge (insect)
and Blast (disease) and abiotic stresses like submergence and salinity are a serious …

• Diagnosis is a process that is influenced by systems, cognitive, teamwork, and social
factors that may either enhance or reduce diagnostic accuracy• Clinicians can integrate …