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Patients with endometriosis often experience care delays and misdiagnoses that contribute to harm. This news story discusses a patient’s experience with common contributors to delay that include Insufficient clinical knowledge of the disease and a lack of uniform treatment guidance.

The harm of misdiagnosis can be extended by lack of clinician recognition and acceptance of the error when a patient raises concerns. This news story shares the experience of a physician-patient whose recognition of a diagnostic mistake was initially dismissed. The author defines the repeated lack of organizational willingness to resolve the situation as a normalized deviance in health care.

The pace of emergency care delivery can reduce reliability. This news story discusses an analysis of medical liability claims over a 5-year period that found diagnostic failure to be the driver of over 50% of the emergency department claims reviewed.

Maternal mortality is increasing in the United States. This news article reports on this critical safety problem in the context of the preventable death of a patient whose diagnosis of preeclampsia was missed by her providers, despite persistent concerns raised by family about the patient's symptoms.

Physicians' decision-making can be diminished when they are tired, distracted, or too narrowly task-focused. This article discusses cognitive biases and other limitations that affect physicians' ability to process information effectively and explores how these factors can contribute to uncertainty and clinical misjudgment.

Delays in care and diagnosis can result in patient harm. This news article reports on the trend of delays in prehospital emergency care as a safety concern in the United Kingdom and describes an incident involving an infant who died from sepsis after a call handler from the NHS 111 service failed to recognize that the child required urgent care.

This news article reports on the widely publicized delayed diagnosis of Ebola at a Dallas hospital and reveals previously undisclosed details from the emergency room physician who misdiagnosed the patient when he first presented, including information and communication gaps that may have contributed to the failure.

Guidelines and rules are developed to help augment safety, but they cannot guarantee it. This news article explores the potential causes for a missed diagnosis of Ebola despite screening procedures for the virus, including weaknesses in an electronic health record system, complacency, and poor communication.

This article discusses five conditions often associated with diagnostic errors in intensive care units and provides tips for patients and families to help prevent them.

Reporting on the death of a boy due to a missed diagnosis of infection, this newspaper article discusses solutions being adopted to prevent similar errors.

This newspaper article reports on gaps in communication and a missed sepsis diagnosis that led to a patient's death.

This magazine article reports on cases in which outsourcing the interpretation of radiology tests contributed to patient harm.

This article shares stories of missed heart attack diagnoses and is accompanied by an online poll for readers to share their experiences with medical error.

This article reports on the investigation following the death of New York Times reporter David E. Rosenbaum. The investigation uncovered a range of failures in emergency care and is described in a report available via the link below.

This newspaper article reports on efforts to reduce errors in emergency medicine, including improving physician–nurse communication, adopting timeouts before discharge, and using trigger systems.