Nearly 12 million U.S. Adults Have Health Conditions Misdiagnosed Each Year
We trust doctors to tell us what’s wrong when we’re sick or in pain. But some doctors can get it wrong. As many as 12 million adults in the U.S. are misdiagnosed every year, but women bear the brunt of that statistic. They are 20 to 30 percent more likely than white men to be […]
Physicians See Increased Medical Errors Due to Staff Shortages
Survey Healthcare Global, a subsidiary of Apollo Intelligence, a data collection service for health care market research, released a new report showing that 34 percent of physicians in six developed countries said they have observed an increase in medical errors as a result of staff shortages.1 Shortage of Health Care Professionals Affecting Physicians’ Mental Health […]
Medical Errors Harm Up to 25 Percent of Patients in Outpatient Care
A white paper released in January 2020 by the Foundation for the Innovation and Development of Health Safety shows that 20-25 percent of patients are harmed by medical errors in primary and ambulatory care (outpatient) in both developed countries like the U.S. and Europe and in developing countries. Primary and ambulatory care is one of […]
