Diagnostic error increases mortality and length of hospital stay in patients presenting through the emergency room.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diagnostic errors occur frequently, especially in the emergency room. Estimates about the consequences of diagnostic error vary widely and little is known about the factors predicting error. Our objectives thus was to determine the rate of discrepancy between diagnoses at hospital admission and discharge in patients presenting through the emergency room, the discrepancies' consequences, and factors predicting them.

Methods

Prospective observational clinical study combined with a survey in a University-affiliated tertiary care hospital. Patients' hospital discharge diagnosis was compared with the diagnosis at hospital admittance through the emergency room and classified as similar or discrepant according to a predefined scheme by two independent expert raters. Gene

SUBMITTER: Hautz WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505221 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature