Online public reactions to frequency of diagnostic errors in US outpatient care
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The frequency of diagnostic errors in outpatient care: estimations from three large observational studies involving US adult populations
BACKGROUND The frequency of outpatient diagnostic errors is challenging to determine due to varying error definitions and the need to review data across multiple providers and care settings over time. We estimated the frequency of diagnostic errors in the US adult population by synthesising data from three previous studies of clinic-based populations that used conceptually similar definitions o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diagnosis
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2194-802X,2194-8011
DOI: 10.1515/dx-2015-0022