Patient-related factors associated with an increased risk of being a reported case of preventable harm in first-line health care, 2020, Fernholm et al

Open access, https://bmcfampract.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12875-020-1087-4

 

erm...possibly the people treating them require extra attention instead.

(it seems much more likely, to me, that the harm to patients is caused directly or indirectly by staffs lack of understanding/care/concern towards those who are not 'typical' patients, rather than as a direct result of patients actions - so watching the patients may not, in fact, be the correct response.)

 

What does that mean? Errors of diagnosing physical disease as psychological? Or errors of (supposedly) diagnosing psychological disease as physical?

 

It means they had a nonpsychiatric illness that was erroneously considered to be psychiatric.

 

And 46%, does that mean that 46% of the preventable harm was due to these diagnostic errors? Or that 46% of people were misdiagnosed?