Defining excellence: next steps for practicing clinicians seeking to prevent diagnostic error

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report on diagnostic errors in September, 2015. The report highlights the urgency of reducing errors and calls for system-level intervention and changes in our basic clinical interactions. Using the report’s controversial definition of diagnostic error as...

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Main Authors: Paul N. Foster, Julie R. Klein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Greater Baltimore Medical Center 2016-09-01
Series:Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
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Online Access:http://www.jchimp.net/index.php/jchimp/article/view/31994/pdf_30