When medical care leads to harm difficulty finding words: a teachable moment. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

When medical care leads to harm difficulty finding words: a teachable moment. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published June 2015

When medical care leads to harm—difficulty finding words: a teachable moment.

Chamberlain E, DiVeronica M, Segura R. JAMA Intern Med. 2015;175:1271-1272.

To illustrate the potential for harm associated with overuse of medical care, this commentary describes an incident involving a patient who received unnecessary diagnostic imaging which resulted in iatrogenic harm. A previous AHRQ WebM&M perspective explored medical care overuse as a patient safety problem.

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