Diagnostic errors in an accident and emergency department
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Diagnostic errors in an accident and emergency department.
OBJECTIVES To describe the diagnostic errors occurring in a busy district general hospital accident and emergency (A&E) department over four years. METHOD All diagnostic errors discovered by or notified to one A&E consultant were noted on a computerised database. RESULTS 953 diagnostic errors were noted in 934 patients. Altogether 79.7% were missed fractures. The most common reasons for err...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.18.4.263