Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA
Johns Hopkins University · Johns Hopkins Medicine · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Diagnostic errors cause substantial preventable harms worldwide, but rigorous estimates for total burden are lacking. We previously estimated diagnostic error and serious harm rates for key dangerous diseases in major disease categories and validated plausible ranges using clinical experts.
We sought to estimate the annual US burden of serious misdiagnosis-related harms (permanent morbidity, mortality) by combining prior results with rigorous estimates of disease incidence.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 44.17
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 38
Authors
11- DEDavid E. Newman‐TokerCorresponding
Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- NNNajlla Nassery
Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- ACAdam C. Schaffer
Harvard University, National Patient Safety Foundation
- CWC. Winnie Yu‐Moe
National Patient Safety Foundation
- GCGwendolyn Clemens
Johns Hopkins University
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Harm
- Observational study
- Incidence (geometry)
- Emergency department
- Disease
- Disease burden
- Burden of disease
- Good health and well-being