Diagnostic error in the emergency department: learning from national patient safety incident report analysis

Background Diagnostic error occurs more frequently in the emergency department than in regular in-patient hospital care. We sought to characterise the nature of reported diagnostic error in hospital emergency departments in England and Wales from 2013 to 2015 and to identify the priority areas for intervention to reduce their occurrence. Methods A cross-sectional mixed-methods design using an exploratory descriptive analysis and thematic...