According to a review by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, more than 40,000 U.S. adults may be dying while in a hospital intensive care unit due to misdiagnosis of their illness by their attending medical team. The study was to determine if fatal misdiagnoses were more common in ICU than in the general hospital population, and if they involved more infections or vascular events such as heart attacks.<\/p>\n
The researchers examined more than 30 studies that sourced autopsies to detect undiagnosed medical issues leading to death in adult ICU patients More than one-in-four patients – some 28 percent \u2013 were found to have one or more missed diagnoses at death. Additionally, 8 percent of the patients had a diagnostic error found to be serious enough to either have caused or directly contributed to his or her death. . They determined that the misdiagnoses made by medical staff (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to a review by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, more than 40,000 U.S. adults may be dying while in a hospital intensive care unit due to misdiagnosis of their illness by their attending medical team. The study…<\/span><\/p>\n