Wrong Diagnostic Code
The main issues I noticed this week were inputting the wrong diagnostic code for a patient along with the electronic prescribing errors. These two things are more common than we think. They are very important to fix in order for people to get better and for insurance to cover them. Doling out a wrong diagnostic code might be tremendously costly, time-consuming, and ineffective for patients; all the more fundamentally, it is a risk to patient wellbeing and quality. It comes down to time, money, expense, costs, research, training, doctor and hospital visits, treatment's, surgeries, drugs, disabilities, death, quality healthcare, higher medical and life premiums, absence of or no medical coverage, grief, negligence, and simply feeling down right sick (Nilson, 2016)!
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The National Patient Safety Foundation stated that 42% of medical patients feel they have experienced a medical error or misdiagnosis, resulting in the cost of medical tests, drugs, and operations. Results from a separate survey of 2,201 in the United States, 35% of those experienced a medical mistake within the past 5 years. Of these, 35% resulted in permanent harm or death. It has also been shown that that at least 44,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical errors and misdiagnosis. Some signs to look for when a possible misdiagnosis has happen are: current treatment does not seem to be working, symptoms that don’t usually occur with the given diagnosis, diagnosis based on a single lab result, the physician attributes symptoms that are common among other conditions, and the physician references a test that was not performed as a factor in the diagnosis (Nilson,
The National Patient Safety Foundation stated that 42% of medical patients feel they have experienced a medical error or misdiagnosis, resulting in the cost of medical tests, drugs, and operations. Results from a separate survey of 2,201 in the United States, 35% of those experienced a medical mistake within the past 5 years. Of these, 35% resulted in permanent harm or death. It has also been shown that that at least 44,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical errors and misdiagnosis. Some signs to look for when a possible misdiagnosis has happen are: current treatment does not seem to be working, symptoms that don’t usually occur with the given diagnosis, diagnosis based on a single lab result, the physician attributes symptoms that are common among other conditions, and the physician references a test that was not performed as a factor in the diagnosis (Nilson,