Recommendations for using the Revised Safer Dx instrument to help measure and improve diagnostic safety. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Recommendations for using the Revised Safer Dx instrument to help measure and improve diagnostic safety. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published July 2019

Recommendations for using the Revised Safer Dx instrument to help measure and improve diagnostic safety.

Singh H, Khanna A, Spitzmueller C, Meyer AND. Diagnosis (Berl). 2019 Jul 9; [Epub ahead of print].

This commentary discusses the revision of a structured tool for physician review of medical records to assess if a diagnostic error took place. The authors provide rationale for the revision of the tool, outline the changes made, and offer recommendations for use of the tool.

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