Peer feedback, learning, and improvement: answering the call of the Institute of Medicine report on diagnostic error. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Peer feedback, learning, and improvement: answering the call of the Institute of Medicine report on diagnostic error. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published September 2016

Peer feedback, learning, and improvement: answering the call of the Institute of Medicine report on diagnostic error.

Larson DB, Donnelly LF, Podberesky DJ, Merrow AC, Sharpe RE Jr, Kruskal JB. Radiology. 2016 Sep 27; [Epub ahead of print].

Improving the culture of safety within health care is an essential component of preventing errors. This commentary discusses the culture of radiology in the context of recent progress in understanding and reducing diagnostic error. The authors suggest that peer-oriented feedback and assessment would drive progress in improving safety in radiology.

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