Misdiagnosis/Delayed Diagnosis

Diagnostic error is recognized as a major source of preventable harms in US healthcare. . . Estimates extrapolating from diagnostic error rates in specific research studies suggest that 12 million Americans suffer a diagnostic error each year in primary care alone. The same studies found that 33% of these diagnostic errors resulted in “serious permanent damage” or “immediate or inevitable death”. This would translate to at least 4 million seriously harmed, including at least 1.7 million who died from diagnostic error.

Newman-Toker D, Schaffer A, Yu-Moe C. Serious misdiagnosis-related harms in malpractice claims: "The Big Three"- vascular events, infections, and cancers. Diagnosis. 2019; 227-240.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/dx-2019-0019/html
Of the malpractice cases occurring because of diagnostic errors and causing the most harm, 74% were attributable to three conditions:

Cancer
Vascular events
Infection

Analysis: One in Three Malpractice Cases with Serious Patient Harms Are Due to Misdiagnosis. Society To Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (2019)

https://www.improvediagnosis.org/news_posts/analysis-one-in-three-malpractice-cases-with-serious-patient-harms-are-due-to-misdiagnosis/

Breast Cancer Misdiagnosis/Delayed Diagnosis

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