True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

When researchers proposed the shocking statistic that medical errors were the third leading cause of death in the United States, the healthcare community reacted in a variety of ways. Instead of ...

I came across an interesting article in The New York Times‘ editorial section today, written by Sanjay Gupta, the associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital, and CNN‘s chief medical ...

Each year, a staggering 400,000 people are estimated to have died due to medical errors. What's more, each day there's also 10,000 serious complications resulting from medical mistakes. Part of the ...

Explore the implications of AI errors in health care and the necessity for human oversight in drug prescribing.

In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...

]This study is a continuation of the IOM Quality Chasm Series, which focuses on assessing and improving the quality and safety of health care. The charge to the ...