RT Journal
A1 Graber ML, Wachter RM, Cassel CK
T1 BRinging diagnosis into the quality and safety equations
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD September 26
VO 308
IS 12
SP 1211
OP 1212
DO 10.1001/2012.jama.11913
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2012.jama.11913
AB 
Cases of delayed, missed, and incorrect diagnosis are common, with an incidence in the range of 10% to 20%.1 Some errors in diagnosis stem from mistakes in the interpretation of diagnostic tests. For example, pathology, radiology, and the clinical laboratory each have error rates of 2% to 5%. Superimposed on these testing errors are the ubiquitous system-related errors encountered in every health care organization, as well as cognitive errors caused by faulty clinical reasoning. Diagnostic errors do not occur only in connection with unusual conditions but span the breadth of clinical medicine, from rare disorders to commonplace ones like anemia and asthma.2- 3