Johns Hopkins team finds ICU misdiagnoses may account for as many annual deaths as breast cancer

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/jhm-jht082712.php

Public release date: 27-Aug-2012
Contact: Shannon Swiger
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Armstrong Institute researchers discover missed medical conditions in more than 1 in 4 critically ill adults

Each year as many as 40,500 critically ill U.S. hospital patients die with an unknown medical condition that may have caused or contributed to their death, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts report in a recent study.