Authors
Andrew D Auerbach, Tiffany M Lee, Colin C Hubbard, Sumant R Ranji, Katie Raffel, Gilmer Valdes, John Boscardin, Anuj K Dalal, Alyssa Harris, Ellen Flynn, Jeffrey L Schnipper, David Feinbloom, Bethany N Roy, Shoshana J Herzig, Mohammed Wazir, Esteban F Gershanik, Abhishek Goyal, Pooja R Chitneni, Sharran Burney, Janice Galinsky, Sarah Rastegar, Danielle Moore, Carl Berdahl, Edward G Seferian, Krithika Suri, Tea Ramishvili, Deepak Vedamurthy, Daniel P Hunt, Amisha S Mehta, Haritha Katakam, Stephanie A Field, Barbara Karatasakis, Katharina Beeler, Allison M Himmel, Shaker Eid, Sonal Gandhi, Ivonne M Pena, Zachary S Ranta, Samuel D Lipten, David J Lucier, Beth Walker-Corkery, Jennifer Kleinman Sween, Robert W Kirchoff, Katie M Rieck, Gururaj J Kolar, Riddhi S Parikh, Caroline Burton, Chandrasagar Dugani, Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, Arkadiy Finn, Sushma B Raju, Asif Surani, Ankur Segon, Sanjay Bhandari, Gopi J Astik, Kevin J O’Leary, A Shams Helminski, James Anstey, Mengyu Zhou, Angela E Alday, Stephanie AC Halvorson, Armond M Esmaili, Peter Barish, Cynthia Fenton, Molly Kantor, Kwang Jin Choi, Andrew W Schram, Gregory Ruhnke, Hemali Patel, Anunta Virapongse, Marisha Burden, Li-Kheng Ngov, Angela Keniston, Preetham Talari, John B Romond, Sarah E Vick, Mark V Williams, Ruby A Marr, Ashwin B Gupta, Jeffrey M Rohde, Frances Mao, Michele M Fang, S Ryan Greysen, Pranav Shah, Christopher S Kim, Maya Narayanan, Benjamin Wolpaw, Sonja M Ellingson, Farah A Kaiksow, Jordan S Kenik, David Sterken, Michelle E Lewis, Bhavish R Manwani, Russell W Ledford, Chase J Webber, Eduard E Vasilevskis, Ryan J Buckley, Sunil B Kripalani, Christopher Sankey, Sharon R Ostfeld-Johns, Katherine Gielissen, Thilan Wijesekera, Eric Jordan, Abhishek Karwa, Bethlehem Churnet, David Chia, Katherine Brooks, UPSIDE Research Group
Publication date
2024/2/1
Journal
JAMA Internal Medicine
Volume
184
Issue
2
Pages
164-173
Publisher
American Medical Association
Description
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 prevalence, underlying cause, and harms of diagnostic errors among hospitalized adults transferred to an intensive care unit (ICU) or who died.
Design, Setting, and Participants
Retrospective cohort study conducted at 29 academic medical centers in the US in a random sample of adults hospitalized with general medical conditions and who were transferred to an ICU, died, or both from January 1 to December 31, 2019. Each record was reviewed by 2 trained clinicians to determine whether a diagnostic error occurred (ie, missed or delayed diagnosis), identify diagnostic process faults, and classify harms. Multivariable models estimated association between process faults and diagnostic error. Opportunity for diagnostic error reduction …
Total citations
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