Frequency of diagnostic errors in the neonatal intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study.

Grant J Shafer; Hardeep Singh; Eric J. Thomas; Satid Thammasitboon; Kanekal Suresh Gautham

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Frequency of diagnostic errors in the neonatal intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study.

March 23, 2022

Shafer GJ, Singh H, Thomas EJ, et al. J Perinatol. 2022;42(10):1312-1318.

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Patients in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are at risk for serious patient safety threats. In this retrospective review of 600 consecutive inborn NICU admissions, researchers found that the frequency of diagnostic errors among inborn NICU patients during the first seven days of admission was 6.2%.

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