Most of the time a medical diagnosis is on point. But misdiagnoses do occur, and an overly confident doctor may be partly to blame, a new review suggests. The rate of diagnostic error is as high as 15%, Eta S. Berner, EdD, and Mark L.. Graber, MD, write in a special edition of The American Journal of Medicine dedicated to understanding and addressing diagnostic errors.
Physician overconfidence and a lack of feedback following a diagnosis are two important contributors to the problem, they note.
"When directly questioned, many clinicians find it inconceivable that their own error rate could be as high as the literature demonstrates," Berner and Graber write. "They acknowledge that diagnostic error exists, but believe the rate is very low, and that any errors are made by others who are less skillful or less careful."
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