Solving a hidden challenge: 10 tips to reduce diagnostic error in the emergency department
Diagnostic error is a difficult issue to track in the emergency department (ED). For a good reason, too: The patient population is so transient it’s difficult to detect a “missed” diagnosis. It’s less readily apparent than medication errors, falls, and other commonly reported incidents.
But that’s precisely what makes diagnostic error such an insidious problem.
Recent research into malpractice claims over a five-year period suggests that 28 percent of all diagnostic error …
