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Newsletter, March 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Five conditions account for 39% of serious misdiagnosis-related harms: stroke, myocardial infarction, aortic aneurysm/dissection, spinal cord compression/injury, and venous thromboembolism. The authors estimate that with 130 million ED visits a year in the US, 7.4 million patients are misdiagnosed, 2.6