Diagnostic error in the emergency department: learning from national patient safety incident report analysis

Abstract Background Diagnostic error occurs more frequently in the emergency department than in regular in-patient hospital care. We sought to characterise the nature of reported diagnostic error in hospital emergency departments in England and Wales from 2013 to 2015 and to identify the priority ar...

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Main Authors: Faris Hussain, Alison Cooper, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Liam Donaldson, Peter Hibbert, Thomas Hughes, Adrian Edwards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-019-0289-3