Meeting
Abstract Number: 79
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Although diagnostic errors are common in hospitals, little is known about the resulting economic burden. Whether the increasing attention to patient safety has led to a decrease in diagnostic error-related claims and cost over time is also unknown. Using a publicly available dataset, we examined incidence costs and outcomes associated with diagnostic errors in […]
Abstract Number: 126
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Clinically, cough is classified by the duration which has implications for diagnosis and subsequent treatment. For example, chronic coughs lasting more than eight weeks, such as those related to allergies or gastroesophageal reflux disease, will have very different implications than acute coughs that less three weeks, such as those caused by the common cold. […]