Health
Up to one in seven medical diagnoses could be wrong, study reveals – Brisbane Times
Leading clinicians are warning that more needs to be done to lower the number of preventable misdiagnoses, leading in some cases to harm and even death.
Professor Scott said they were comfortable extrapolating from the US data because the two systems were very similar from a diagnostic standpoint.
He added that they used US statistics because there was no easily accessible data on diagnostic errors in Australia, which is part of the problem.
“Were saying up to one in seven people counted involve some form of diagnostic error, not necessarily egregious error that leads to major harm, but which still leads to some unnecessary investigation, or s…
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