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Report focuses on risk to patients from ED errors.

October 30, 2019

Palmer J. Patient Saf Qual Healthcare. Sept/Oct 2019.

The pace of emergency care delivery can reduce reliability. This news story discusses an analysis of medical liability claims over a 5-year period that found diagnostic failure to be the driver of over 50% of the emergency department claims reviewed.

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