Background Diagnostic errors often result in patient harm. Previous studies have shown that
there is large variability in results in different medical specialties. The present study explored …

Objective: This study determined the incidence, type, nature, preventability and impact of
adverse events (AEs) among hospitalised patients and potentially preventable deaths in …

Researchers have proposed that during visual search, a color singleton cannot capture
attention in a bottom-up fashion (Jonides & Yantis, 1988). In the present study, we …

Background Errors in reasoning are a common cause of diagnostic error. However, it is
difficult to improve performance partly because providers receive little feedback on …

Diagnostic errors remain an underemphasised and understudied area of patient safety
research. We briefly summarise the methods that have been used to conduct research on …

Diagnostic errors have emerged as a serious patient safety problem but they are hard to
detect and complex to define. At the research summit of the 2013 Diagnostic Error in …

Background Patient record review is believed to be the most useful method for estimating
the rate of adverse events among hospitalised patients. However, the method has some …

Background Many authors have implicated cognitive biases as a primary cause of
diagnostic error. If this is so, then physicians already familiar with common cognitive biases …

Background Non-technical skills, such as task management, leadership, situational
awareness, communication and decision-making refer to cognitive, behavioural and social …

Background Diagnostic errors occur frequently, especially in the emergency room. Estimates
about the consequences of diagnostic error vary widely and little is known about the factors …