Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Change Package. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Change Package. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Toolkit
 
• Published September 2018

Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Change Package.

Chicago, IL: Health Research & Educational Trust; 2018.

Proactive identification of conditions that degrade the diagnostic process can drive improvement. This toolkit provides resources to help organizations seeking to improve diagnosis. The publication includes case studies that illustrate implementation challenges and provides infrastructure enhancement suggestions for hospital teams as they design interventions to reduce diagnostic errors.

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