Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a framework of strategies to reduce diagnosis errors in hospitalized patients.
While investigating diagnosis errors in hospitalized patients, the researchers identified five dimensions of diagnosis, then analyzed errors to identify improvement opportunities within each dimension. Their work was published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
National patient safety initiatives and CMS’s efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions have not focused on misdiagnoses, noted study co-author Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine at Baylor and chief of the Health Policy, Quality and Informatics Program at the Houston VA Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety.
