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Diagnostic errors

Posted on June 09, 2008

Busy 2 days, will blog more about this later this week, but Wachter highlights a key medrants issue - Why Diagnostic Errors Don t Get Any Respect And What Can Be Done About It Is there any hope of getting diagnostic errors included under the broad umbrella of patient safety, where they can garner the attention and resources they deserve? Sure. But we need to solve a chicken-or-egg problem: if there is no interest and funding in the topic, we won t generate the research we need to measure the toll of the problem or come up with effective solutions. And then there won t be funding and...

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