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For the Level 3 errors, the information processing error types: information error, diagnostic error and performance error stem from Rasmussen and Vollrath.
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Furthermore, the authors do not distinguish between laboratory errors and diagnostic errors.
Interns also made more serious medication errors and diagnostic errors when on the lengthy schedule than on the reduced schedule.
In clinical care, there has been much effort on decreasing medical errors including diagnostic errors of omission (DEO).
Thus, it seems most likely that the women in group 3 represent 20% false-negative smears due to sampling error or diagnostic error.
Errors in diagnostic thinking are not easy to assess, as harm that results may be categorised as due to a different source, eg caused by (the wrong) treatment, or a delay to the right one.
Fatigue has also been associated directly with negative consequences for patient safety, such as clinical errors and diagnostic mistakes.
Errors in diagnostic classification would influence accuracy of effect estimates, particularly in cases of acute rather than chronic psychiatric illness.
58 Therefore, it is unlikely that errors in diagnostic or certification could have significantly affected our findings.
Diagnostic error is an important error type since diagnostic adverse events are regularly judged as being preventable and the consequences are considered to be severe.
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