"If doctors have negative feelings toward patients, they're more dismissive, they're less patient, and it can cloud their judgment, making them prone to diagnostic errors."

To be sure, even when diagnostic errors are taken into account, depression is still considered to be a more common affliction among women.

Failure to cut sample DNA may lead to diagnostic errors with clinical material.

A systematic review of studies of the autopsy calculated that in about 25% of autopsies a major diagnostic error will be revealed.

However, this rate has decreased over time and the study projects that in a contemporary US institution, 8.4% to 24.4% of autopsies will detect major diagnostic errors.

Most physicians do not appropriately take such differences in prevalence into account when interpreting test results, which may cause unnecessary testing and diagnostic errors.

He still felt guilty, even though he knew that it had been a diagnostic error any doctor could have made, and many had.

If he makes a diagnostic error, that means the whole episode is a dream.

These problems can range from diagnostic and treatment errors to hospital-acquired infections, procedural complications, and failure to prevent problems such as pressure ulcers.

Residents working more hours committed 36 percent more serious errors and five times as many diagnostic errors.