Nearly one in five US hospital deaths are caused by misdiagnoses, research shows.
A study published last month in the journal JAMA examined 2019 medical records from nearly 2,500 patients in 29 different American hospitals.
All of the patients were transported to the intensive care unit (ICU), died while hospitalized, or both.
The researchers found that 23 percent of these patients were misdiagnosed or received a delayed diagnosis. And nearly 18 percent of them died or suffered other serious harm. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12965791/hospital-deaths-bungling-doctors-medical-errors.html
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