Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Diagnostic errors are one of the "new" hot topics in the healthcare field. A new study from British Medical Journal of Quality and Safety has a chilling estimate of just how common diagnostic errors are occurring in outpatient settings.
So what's your guess? How often in the US are diagnostic errors being made in outpatient settings?
about 1 in 5 visits
about 1 in 10 visits
about 1 in 20 visits
about 1 in 50 visits
about 1 in 100 visits
The study's conclusion, after the jump...
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Thanks to Abbott for their expo photo booth. Not often we get a chance to have a professional photo taken.
Dr. Westgard talks about the new era of QC at the Thermo Fisher workshop.
Visit our booth or better yet Thermo Scientific's booth for a nice take-home from Chicago.
Dr. Gabriel Migliarino poses with the Westgards in Chicago. Dr. Migliarino provided the last and longest chapter in the new book on Basic Quality Management Systems.
Method evaluation accomplished. Thanks to AACC President-elect Dave Koch and Nils Person, my co-presenters, and to all the attendees who braved a day of statistics.
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Earlier this month (July) I came across a series of revealing posts on a listserv about the quality of glucose meters. For me, it raised the question, just what defect rate is acceptable at the point of care?
0.00034%
1%
5%
10%
40%
75%
100%
What level of defect rate do you believe is being seen at the point of care? the answer (after the jump) might astonish you...
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