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Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, Paperback / softback Book

Improving Diagnosis in Health Care Paperback / softback

Edited by John R. Ball, Bryan T. Miller, Erin P. Balogh

Paperback / softback

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Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions.

The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem.

According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients.

It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences.

Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions.

The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errors?has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care.

Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity.

Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers.

The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety. Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary1 Introduction2 The Diagnostic Process3 Overview of Diagnostic Error in Health Care4 Diagnostic Team Members and Tasks: Improving Patient Engagementand Health Care Professional Education and Training in Diagnosis5 Technology and Tools in the Diagnostic Process6 Organizational Characteristics, the Physical Environment, and theDiagnostic Process: Improving Learning, Culture, and the WorkSystem7 The External Environment Influencing Diagnosis: Reporting,Medical Liability, and Payment8 A Research Agenda for the Diagnostic Process and Diagnostic Error9 The Path to Improve Diagnosis and Reduce Diagnostic ErrorAppendix A: GlossaryAppendix B: Committee Member and Staff BiographiesAppendix C: Previous Diagnostic Error FrameworksAppendix D: Examples of Diagnostic Error

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