Advancing diagnostic safety: an AHRQ leadership conversation (25 October 2021)

Summary

This article from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the United States is the transcript of a conversation between AHRQ’s Acting Director David Meyers, MD, and the Agency’s chief patient safety official, Jeff Brady, MD MPH, about key issues in diagnostic safety.

Diagnostic safety is “the newest frontier in patient safety,” according to Dr Brady, who emphasises the Agency’s commitment to improve diagnostic safety and explains how researchers are working to better understand diagnostic errors and design systems and processes to reduce errors.