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Measuring & Preventing Diagnostic Errors

September 11, 2020 • By Richard Zamore, MD, MPH

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Richard Zamore, MD, MPHRichard Zamore, MD, MPH, is a rheumatologist at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Mass., and completed a rheumatology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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  1. Khorana MM, Khorana AA. Measuring quality. JAMA. 2019 Dec 3;322(21):2077–2078.
  2. Baolgh EP, Miller BT, Ball JR (eds). (2015) Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press.
  3. Singh H, Sittig DF. Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic errors in healthcare: The Safer Dx framework. BMJ Qual Saf. 2015 Feb;24(2):103–110.

Note: This article is the opinion of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of the ACR or The Rheumatologist.

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Filed Under: Professional Topics, Quality Assurance/Improvement Tagged With: Diagnosis, Errors, Speak Out RheumatologyIssue: September 2020

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