Overcoming diagnostic errors in medical practice. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Overcoming diagnostic errors in medical practice. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published March 2017

Overcoming diagnostic errors in medical practice.

Bordini BJ, Stephany A, Kliegman R. J Pediatr. 2017 Mar 20; [Epub ahead of print].

This commentary describes a program developed to evaluate patients with undiagnosed and rare diseases as a way to reduce diagnostic error. The authors explain heuristic and clinical reasoning shortcomings that can hinder diagnosis and how to manage them through improved information gathering and hypothesis testing.

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