Ten principles for more conservative, care-full diagnosis. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Ten principles for more conservative, care-full diagnosis. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published October 2018

Ten principles for more conservative, care-full diagnosis.

Schiff GD, Martin SA, Eidelman DH, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Oct 2; [Epub ahead of print].

Safe diagnosis is a complex challenge that requires multidisciplinary approaches to achieve lasting improvement. The authors worked with a multidisciplinary panel to build a 10-element framework outlining steps that support conservative diagnosis as an approach to reducing overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

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