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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822942603321

Titolo

Improving diagnosis in health care / / National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-309-37772-2

0-309-37770-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Collana

Quality chasm series Improving diagnosis in health care

Disciplina

616.075

Soggetti

Diagnosis - Methodology - Evaluation

Diagnostic errors - United States - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

FrontMatter; Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Boxes, Figures, and Tables; Acronyms and Abbrevations; Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 The Diagnostic Process; 3 Overview of Diagnostic Error in Health Care; 4 Diagnostic Team Members and Tasks: Improving Patient Engagement and Health Care Professional Education and Training in Diagnosis; 5 Technology and Tools in the Diagnostic Process; 6 Organizational Characteristics, the Physical Environment, and the Diagnostic Process: Improving Learning, Culture, and the Work System

7 The External Environment Influencing Diagnosis: Reporting, Medical Liability, and Payment8 A Research Agenda for the Diagnostic Process and Diagnostic Error; 9 The Path to Improve Diagnosis and Reduce Diagnostic Error; Appendix A: Glossary; Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies; Appendix C: Previous Diagnostic Error Frameworks; Appendix D: Examples of Diagnostic Error