The great majority of medical diagnoses are made using automatic, fast, and frugal cognitive
processes; they are correct most of the time. This analytic review concerns the exceptions …

Background This chapter examines reporting of health care errors (eg, verbal, written, or
other form of communication and/or recording of near miss and patient safety events that …

A wide variety of research studies suggest that breakdowns in the diagnostic process result
in a staggering toll of harm and patient deaths. These include autopsy studies, case reviews …

Diagnostic errors have emerged as a serious patient safety problem but they are hard to
detect and complex to define. At the research summit of the 2013 Diagnostic Error in …

OBJECTIVES: Despite the growing problems of emergency department (ED) crowding, the
potential impact on the frequency of medication errors occurring in the ED is uncertain …

Background Diagnostic errors often result in patient harm. Previous studies have shown that
there is large variability in results in different medical specialties. The present study explored …

Medical errors are a prominent issue in health care. Numerous studies point at the high
prevalence of adverse events, many of which are preventable. Although there is a range of …

Aims and objectives To determine individual and professional factors affecting the tendency
of emergency unit nurses to make medical errors and their attitudes towards these errors in …

Background. Evidence suggests that pooling multiple independent diagnoses can improve
diagnostic accuracy in well-defined tasks. We investigated whether this is also the case for …

Background The publication of the report “To err is human: building a safer system” by the
Institute of Medicine incited a profuse research addressing improvements in healthcare …