25-Year summary of US malpractice claims for diagnostic errors 1986–2010: an analysis from the National Practitioner Data Bank

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Diagnostic errors accounted for 28.6% of paid US malpractice claims (n=100,249) between 1986-2010, representing the leading cause of medical mistakes, highest proportion of total payments (35.2%, $38.8 billion total), and most frequent cause of death (40.9%) and permanent injury.

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