Skilled Emergency Room Errors Attorneys in Grand Rapids, Michigan

The most common mistakes that form the basis of a medical malpractice case are:

• Incorrect diagnosis
• Delay in proper treatment
• Medication errors
• Lab errors
• Improper discharge

The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc., looked back at ten years of medical malpractice claims, and found the following causes of emergency room errors:

• Failing to order appropriate diagnostic tests
• Failing to continually assess and monitor clinical status
• Failing to develop an appropriate discharge plan
• Failing to correctly interpret tests
• Failing to make appropriate referrals

Similarly, according to Science Daily, the Top 6 Emergency Room Errors are:

• Problems with Information Processing  - healthcare providers have the right information, but they don't take the right action
• Problems verifying information that was gathered
• Inadequate information gathering - failing to ask the right questions, failing to conduct a thorough examination, failing to order the right tests
• Misjudging the significance of a finding
• Prematurely settling on the wrong diagnosis
• Inadequate knowledge - failing to have the right diagnosis on the differential

The top diagnosis that are most frequently involved in emergency errors are:

• Cardiac events
• Stroke / cerebral vascular events
• Acute abdomen
• Infection