Blog - Mis-diagnosing the causes of diagnostic errors in healthcare (3 May 2022)

Summary

In this blog for Psychology Today, Gary Klein looks at the psychological causes of diagnostic errors, arguing that being clear about the exact causes of these errors is the only way to reduce them. Drawing on physical causes of diagnostic error identified in an Institute of Medicine report in 2015, he highlights the need to go further in understanding the explanations the report offers for diagnostic errors.