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Improving diagnosis in health care

Author(s):
Balogh, Erin, editor
Miller, Bryan T, editor
Ball, John, 1944-, editor
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care, issuing body
Title(s):
Improving diagnosis in health careĀ / Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care ; Erin P. Balogh, Bryan T. Miller, and John R. Ball, editors ; Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Series:
Quality chasm series
Country of Publication:
United States
Publisher:
Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2015]
Description:
xxvii, 444 pages : illustrations
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780309377690 (pbk.)
0309377692
9780309377706 (pdf)
LCCN:
2015041708
Electronic Links:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK338596/
MeSH:
Diagnostic Errors/prevention & control*
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
United States
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The diagnostic process -- Overview of diagnostic error in health care -- Diagnostic team members & tasks : improving patient engagement and health care -- Technology and tools in the diagnostic process -- Organizational characteristics, the physical environment, and the diagnostic process : improving learning, culture, and the work system -- The external environment influencing diagnosis : reporting, medical liability, and payment -- A research agenda for the diagnostic process and diagnostic error -- The path to improve diagnosis and reduce diagnostic error.
Other ID:
(OCoLC)1132222465
NLM ID:
101671029 [Book]

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