… using simulation; however, most of these studies focus on a single type of healthcare provider (e.g., medical or nursing students).  This study compared … and those requiring two-step thinking. … Wang M, Banda B, Rodwin BA, et al. Room of hazards: a comparison of …

… of Medicine’s (IOM) report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System estimated that medical errors … medication errors, and diagnostic errors   … Gunderson CG, Rodwin BA. Overstating inpatient deaths due to medical error …

In this systematic review, the authors pooled over 80,000 patients and 760 harmful diagnostic errors from 22 studies and estimated the prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors among hospitalized patients to be 0.7% (95% CI, 0.5-1.1%). Fourteen common diagnoses account for more than half of all missed or delayed diagnoses, with the most frequent being cancer (11%) and pulmonary embolism (9.6%). Extrapolated to the United States, these estimates correspond to approximately 249,900 harmful diagnostic errors each year.

… the proportion of inpatient deaths deemed preventable. A meta-analysis of eight studies including adult patients who …   of preventable mortality . The authors conclude that a reasonable estimate of preventable deaths in the US may be … too many patients die needlessly due to unsafe care. … Rodwin BA, Bilan VP, Merchant NB, et al. Rate of Preventable …