Prevalence and Characteristics of Diagnostic Error in Pediatric Critical Care: A Multicenter Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Effective interventions to prevent diagnostic error among critically ill children should be informed by diagnostic error prevalence and etiologies. We aimed to determine the prevalence and characteristics of diagnostic errors and identify factors associated with error in patients admitted to the PICU.

Design

Multicenter retrospective cohort study using structured medical record review by trained clinicians using the Revised Safer Dx instrument to identify diagnostic error (defined as missed opportunities in diagnosis). Cases with potential errors were further reviewed by four pediatric intensivists who made final consensus determinations of diagnostic error occurrence. Demographic, clinical, clinician, and encounter data were also collected.

Setting

Four ac

SUBMITTER: Cifra CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10615661 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature