Here are three key points:
1. This report, titled “Diagnostic Error in Health Care,” is the fourth edition in the Quality Chasm series.
2. The report joins “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century” and “Preventing Medication Errors.”
3. Some people speculate that the new report will reveal an increased number of preventable deaths in hospitals, due to the inclusion of delays in diagnosis errors.
More articles on quality & infection control:
Evidera’s Evalytica software offers healthcare data analysis: 4 things to know
Underestimated cause of bone & joint infections needs to be treated aggressively: 6 things to know from new research
Researchers find link between virus and cancerous tumors — 5 things to know
