Clinical Cases
Read these case-based scenarios for perspective in reducing diagnostic error and increasing patient safety.
- Atypical Presentation of Acute Ischemic Heart Disease in Women
- Avoiding Cognitive Bias in Diagnosing Sepsis
- Batch Medical Incidents: Catastrophic System Risk
- Boarding Psychiatric Patients in the ED
- Examples of EMTALA Violations
- Failure to Diagnose Sepsis
- Failure to Diagnose Spinal Epidural Abscess
- How to Disclose Medical Errors to a Patient's Family
- Is Lumbar Puncture Necessary to Rule Out Subarachnoid Hemorrhage?
- Medication Error Case: Opioid Adverse Drug Event in the Hospital
- Recognizing Secondary Postpartum Hemorrhage
- Refusal of Care Based Upon Religious Beliefs
- Suicide in the Emergency Department
- Surgical Error Cases
- Vertebral Artery Dissection
- Very Abnormal Vital Signs & Death After Discharge
