Measures to improve diagnostic safety in clinical practice. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Measures to improve diagnostic safety in clinical practice. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published October 2016

Measures to improve diagnostic safety in clinical practice.

Singh H, Graber ML, Hofer TP. J Patient Saf. 2016 Oct 20; [Epub ahead of print].

Efforts to reduce diagnostic errors are hindered by the lack of effective measures to track improvement. This commentary proposes a set of measures for consideration that have the potential to structure research and evaluation of diagnosis improvement initiatives.

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