An estimated 795,000 Americans become permanently disabled or die annually across care settings because dangerous diseases are misdiagnosed. The results suggest that diagnostic error is probably the single largest source of deaths across all care settings (~371 000) linked to medical error. User Ksan_of_Tongass, in the Medical Laboratory Science subreddit, 20 Jul 2023
An estimated 795,000 Americans become permanently disabled or die annually across care settings because dangerous diseases are misdiagnosed. The results suggest that diagnostic error is probably the single largest source of deaths across all care settings (~371 000) linked to medical error. User mvea, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 20 Jul 2023