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Patient Safety Authority: Diagnostic error
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Diagnostic error
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News ArticleIn ‘Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed For Men’ author Caroline Criado Perez writes about Rachael, a woman who suffered years of severe and incapacitating pain during her period. It takes, on average, eight years for women in the UK to obtain a diagnoses of endometriosis. In fact, for over a decade, there has been no improvement in diagnostic times for women living with the debilitating condition. You might think, given the difficulty so many women experience in having their symptoms translated into a diagnosis, that endometriosis is a rare condition that doctors perhaps don’t encounter all that often. Yet it is something that affects one in ten women – so what is going wrong? Read the full article here in The Scotsman
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Medical error prevention (5 May 2020)
Sam posted an article in Good practice
Thomas L. Rodziewicz and John E. Hipskind explore medical error prevention in their book and conclude that: All providers (nurses, pharmacists, and physicians) must accept the inherent issues in their roles as healthcare workers that contribute to error-prone environments. Effective communication related to medical errors may foster autonomy and ultimately improve patient safety. Error reporting better serves patients and providers by mitigating their effects. Even the best clinicians make mistakes, and every practitioner should be encouraged to provide peer support to their colleagues after an adverse event occurs. Medical errors and near misses should be reported when they are discovered. Healthcare professionals are usually the first to notice a change in a patient's condition that suggests an adverse event. A cultural approach in which personal accountability results in long-term increased reporting reduces errors. -
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As college students return, a crisis in campus care awaits
lzipperer posted an article in Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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Content ArticleTake-home points Patient-related factors, cognitive errors, and systems factors are common categories of diagnostic errors, all three of which played a role in the failure to recognize that the patient in this case was in her third trimester of pregnancy and in early labor Communication among members of work teams is critical for avoiding perpetuation of cognitive errors Appropriate supervision of physician trainees is necessary to ensure high-quality patient care Diagnostic errors in the use obstetrical ultrasound can result from inadequate training and experience, and the lack of a systematic approach to examinations and interpretations; patient factors such as obesity can limit diagnostic detection of important findings.
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Scandal-hit NHS trust admits negligence over death of six-week-old baby
Clive Flashman posted a news article in News
Hospital trust ‘truly sorry that mistakes were made in care’ of Luchii Gavrilescu, who died after being sent home from hospital with undiagnosed tuberculosis. An NHS trust investigated over maternity care failings has apologised after a six-week-old child was found to have died due to mistakes at one of its hospitals. East Kent Hospitals University Trust was embroiled in a major scandal after The Independent revealed the trust had seen more than 130 babies over a four-year period suffer brain damage as a result of being starved of oxygen during birth. A report into the trust concluded in April that there had been “recurrent safety risks” at its maternity units. Read full article here. -
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Content ArticleThe 6 factors: Incomplete communication during care transitions Lack of measures and feedback Limited support to help with clinical reasoning Limited time The diagnostic process is complicated Lack of funding for research
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The incidence of diagnostic error in medicine (2013)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Diagnostic error
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Content ArticleKey messages Most Americans will experience a diagnostic error at least once in their lifetime. Patient deaths due to these errors are estimated at 40,000 to 80,000 per year. Diagnostic errors and other inefficiencies cost the U.S. economy $750 billion each year.
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PSNet: Diagnostic errors (September 2019)
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