{"id":253,"date":"2015-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/diagnostic-problems-affect-more-patients-than-once-thought\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:34:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:34:30","slug":"diagnostic-problems-affect-more-patients-than-once-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/diagnostic-problems-affect-more-patients-than-once-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic problems affect more patients than once thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old business adage \u201cif you are in business long enough, you are likely to be sued\u201d may have some truth to it. Depending on the industry and complexity of the business, mistakes can and will be made. At the same time, the health industry has some of the same risks; especially when it comes to diagnosing ailments and conditions. According to a recent report, because of the sheer number diagnoses and the complexity of delivering care within the current system, it is only a matter of time before a critical mistake is made.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2015\/09\/22\/most-americans-who-go-to-the-doctor-will-get-a-wrong-or-late-diagnosis-at-least-once-in-their-lives-study-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Medicine\u2019s report<\/a> outlines a system wide problem, which includes surgical centers, outpatient facilities as well as doctors\u2019 offices. This means that medical negligence is not confined to hospital errors and surgical mistakes; which is what is often reported in the media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the exact number of mistakes with regard to diagnoses is unknown, but it is estimated that diagnostic mistakes affect more than 12 million adults each year. This likely contributes to the number of deaths experienced in hospitals each year as well. What\u2019s worse, the data on diagnostic mistakes is quite sparse, which makes potential improvements to health care delivery problematic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/diagnostic-problems-affect-more-patients-than-once-thought\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Diagnostic problems affect more patients than once thought\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old business adage \u201cif you are in business long enough, you are likely to be sued\u201d may have some truth to it. Depending on the industry and complexity of the business, mistakes can and will be made. At the same time, the health industry has some of the same risks; especially when it comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Diagnostic problems affect more patients than once thought &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; September 24, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Diagnostic problems affect more patients than once thought - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/diagnostic-problems-affect-more-patients-than-once-thought\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Diagnostic problems affect more patients than once thought &#8212; 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