Traber D Giardina, Haslyn Hunte, Mary A Hill, S Layla Heimlich, Hardeep Singh, Kelly M Smith
BACKGROUND: Standards for accurate and timely diagnosis are ill-defined. In 2015, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee published a landmark report, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, and proposed a new definition of diagnostic error, "the failure to (a) establish an accurate and timely explanation of the patient's health problem(s) or (b) communicate that explanation to the patient." OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore how researchers operationalize the NASEM's definition of diagnostic error with relevance to accuracy, timeliness, and/or communication in peer-reviewed published literature...
April 8, 2022: Journal of Patient Safety