Diagnostic errors are common in hospitals and are largely preventable, according to a new observational study led by Anuj K. Dalal, MD, from the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Global Trigger Tool identified 10 times more hospital errors than the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicators and voluntary reporting detected, ...

Karen Bowden, senior vice president of consulting services at Craneware InSight, points to five coding errors or other actions that are most likely to draw RAC attention in the hospital setting. 1.

In its hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a nurse gave Frederick Roufs, 73, the wrong drug, one of 26 medication errors the hospital made over six months. He died two days later at another ...