Diagnostic error in the emergency department: learning from national patient safety incident report analysis.

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-error-emergency-department-learning-national-patient-safety-incident-report?utm_source=ahrq&utm_medium=en-7&utm_term=Diagnostic&utm_content=7&utm_campaign=ahrq_en01_21_2020

Highlights From AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network

AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network (PSNet) highlights journal articles, books and tools related to patient safety. Articles featured this week include:

• Association between mobile telephone interruptions and medication administration errors in a pediatric intensive care unit
• Severe illness getting noticed sooner - SIGNS-for-Kids: developing an illness recognition tool to connect home and hospital
• Diagnostic error in the emergency department: learning from national patient safety incident report analysis

Review additional new publications in PSNet’s current issue or access recent cases and commentaries in AHRQ’s WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web).