부산대학교 도서관

The diagnostic errors are a controversial but real-life topic considered a leading cause of death and unintended harm due to medical-care procedures. We proposed a formula to assess the possibility to identify the diagnostic errors using a database analysis of patients admitted and released from the Clinic of Pulmonary Diseases. We built a database from the admittances and releases during a 21 months period and use a trigger based on a score. Our analysis found out that 48% of patients released had a different diagnostic on release than on admittance. 11,8% patients were re-admitted after less than 30 days upon their release and 871 Patients (6,1% from total, 51,3% from re-admittances) were readmitted with a different diagnosis. This way, we found 8% of our database entries can be assessed as diagnostic errors, the percent being aligned to international findings.