Diagnostic error in a national incident reporting system in the UK.

Nick Sevdalis; Rosamond Jacklin; Sonal Arora; Charles A. Vincent; Richard G. Thomson

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Diagnostic error in a national incident reporting system in the UK.

January 4, 2011

Sevdalis N, Jacklin R, Arora S, et al. J Eval Clin Pract. 2010;16(6):1276-81.

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This study found a 0.5% diagnostic error rate among events filed as incident reports, with the greatest harm associated with events occurring in the emergency department.

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