Diagnosing Diagnostic Errors
March 6, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
What percent of primary care physicians’ diagnoses are wrong? According to the Mayo Clinic, the figure is 20% or one in five. Many, if not most, of these errors are not life threatening, but at the very least they represent an enormous cost to healthcare. And, in some cases, mistakes are fatal. This piece describes a computational tool researchers at Johns Hopkins have developed “called SPADE (Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of Diagnostic Error) to allow providers to harness databases instead of having staff members comb medical records for more information.” MORE
Image Credit: Center for Diagnostic Excellence at Johns Hopkins’ Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality