Improving diagnosis in health care (2015)

Summary

This report from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine highlights three key themes around the issue of diagnostic error:

1. The importance of diagnostic error in patient safety and the need to give the subject more research attention
2. The central role that patients play in helping to avoid diagnostic error.
3. The idea that diagnosis is a collaborative effort involving intra- and interprofessional teamwork.

It also looks at several specific issues that must be addressed to reduce diagnostic errors.