Consequences of Diagnostic Errors on Patient Safety

<p>According to previous studies patient safety was not on the medical profession's priority list when it pertained to preventing medical errors; although no exact number was proven. In addition reluctance to report mistakes and/or inaccuracies in medical record errors continued to increase (Allen & Pierce 2016). This was causing great concerns for the medical profession primarily due to areas where moral concerns and ethics were questionable; therefore one might ask how massive the errors were. According to research from 2016 data verified diagnostic errors accounted for 17% of preventable errors for those patients hospitalized; approximately 9% of patients experience major undetected diagnostic errors while they were alive. In addition per a Harvard Medical Practice study thousands of patients hospitalized died every year because of diagnostic errors and physician- patient communication (Dass-Brailsford deMendoza Giller Green Power Saunders. Schelbert & Wisson 2016; Patient Safety Network 2016).</p>