Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Diagnostic Error | PSNet

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Diagnostic Error | PSNet

Highlights From AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network

A new primer from AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network (PSNet) highlights the well-established principles of diagnostic error and improving diagnostic accuracy related to COVID-19. As noted in the primer, delayed diagnosis of COVID-19 may lead to preventable transmissions, including exposed family members and health care workers, as well as delayed treatment. The primer, which will be updated over time to incorporate new evidence, is part of PSNet’s ongoing effort to highlight new resources related to patient safety. Articles highlighted in this week’s PSNet issue include:

• The safety of health care for ethnic minority patients: a systematic review
• The tradeoffs between safety and alert fatigue: data from a national evaluation of hospital medication-related clinical decision support
• User-testing guidelines to improve the safety of intravenous medicines administration: a randomised in situ simulation study

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