Roughly 12 million adults who visit US doctors’ offices and other outpatient settings, or one inWell considering they don't know what causes most of the things they are treating, you can be sure this rate is much, much higher.
20, are misdiagnosed every year, a new study has found, and half of those errors could lead to serious harm.
To explore the issue, researchers combined data from three past studies to generate a sample pool of about 3,000 medical records. Their analysis found a misdiagnoses rate of just over 5 percent, which when extrapolated to the 80 percent of U.S. adults that receive outpatient care every year, comes to 12 million people.
... Researchers added that faulty medical records and other potential flaws in the data could mean the error rate is even higher. Previous research done by Singh has suggested that many of these misdiagnoses could lead to serious problems, such as delayed cancer treatments or, conversely, unnecessary treatment of nonexistent problems.
So far I have been nothing but misdiagnosed... still hoping...
