Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors

Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors: This brief, the first of two on learning from patient experiences, explores how patient-reported experiences can augment other methods of identifying diagnostic failures, how patient feedback about the diagnostic process and its outcomes can enrich clinicians’ understanding of patient and family experience and reduce the harms that follow adverse diagnostic events, and what questions about learning from patients’ diagnostic experience remain in need of future research.