Andrew D Auerbach, Gopi J Astik, Kevin J O'Leary, Peter N Barish, Molly A Kantor, Katie R Raffel, Sumant R Ranji, Stephanie K Mueller, Sharran N Burney, Janice Galinsky, Esteban F Gershanik, Abhishek Goyal, Pooja R Chitneni, Sarah Rastegar, Armond M Esmaili, Cynthia Fenton, Anunta Virapongse, Li-Kheng Ngov, Marisha Burden, Angela Keniston, Hemali Patel, Ashwin B Gupta, Jeff Rohde, Ruby Marr, S Ryan Greysen, Michele Fang, Pranav Shah, Frances Mao, Farah Kaiksow, David Sterken, Justin J Choi, Jigar Contractor, Abhishek Karwa, David Chia, Tiffany Lee, Colin C Hubbard, Judith Maselli, Anuj K Dalal, Jeffrey L Schnipper
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic required clinicians to care for a disease with evolving characteristics while also adhering to care changes (e.g., physical distancing practices) that might lead to diagnostic errors (DEs). OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of DEs and their causes among patients hospitalized under investigation (PUI) for COVID-19. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort. SETTING: Eight medical centers affiliated with the Hospital Medicine ReEngineering Network (HOMERuN)...
March 23, 2023: Journal of General Internal Medicine