OBJECTIVE We investigate the mechanisms of diagnostic error in primary care consultations to detect warning signs for possible error. We aim to identify places in the diagnostic reasoning process associated with major risk indicators. DESIGN A qualitative study using semistructured interviews with open-ended questions. SETTING A 2-month study in primary care conducted in Oxfordshire, UK. ...

the aim of this paper is to propose some diagnostic methods in linear ridge measurement error models with stochastic linear restrictions using the corrected likelihood. based on the bias-corrected estimation of model parameters, diagnostic measures are developed to identify outlying and influential observations. in addition, we derive the corrected score test statistic for outliers detection ba...

Abstract Background: Medical errors are among the main problems of health and treatment in the world which are responsible for mortality and psychophysical complications in patients, families, and even in the society each year. Medical errors have been increasingly taken into consideration in different countries. Different strategies have been explored to prevent medical errors, one of which i...

BACKGROUND The Emergency Department (ED) is prone to diagnostic error. Most frequent diagnostic errors involved "minor" trauma. Our goal was to determine how frequently a missed diagnosis was detected during follow up and to determine the frequency and causes of primary missed diagnosis and diagnostic error. METHODS A retrospective single centre study review, during 6 months including all pat...