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SIDM catalyzes and leads change to improve diagnosis and eliminate harm from diagnostic error, in partnership with patients, their families, the healthcare community and every interested stakeholder.
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One-third of malpractice cases that result in death or permanent disability stem from an inaccurate or delayed diagnosis, making it the number one cause of serious harms among medical errors.
*Research published in Diagnosis
Diagnostic errors affect an estimated 12 million Americans each year, and likely cause more harm to patients than all other medical errors combined.
Roughly 40,000‐80,000 deaths in U.S. hospitals each year can be attributed to diagnostic error. It’s about the same number of people who die annually from breast cancer or diabetes.
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Join Us for the Next #TeachDx Twitter Chat
Mark your calendar! Join us on Tuesday, January 19 at 9:00 pm ET for a #TeachDx chat on Faculty Development in Clinical Reasoning with Andrew Olson, MD and Eric Holmboe, MD.

Four New Organizations Join National Coalition to Improve Diagnosis
Four leading healthcare organizations, AMGA (American Medical Group Association), END SEPSIS, Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF), and Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have committed to take action to improve diagnostic quality and safety by joining the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis.

SIDM Launches Two New Quality and Safety Resources
SIDM has released a new online toolkit to support diagnostic quality and safety researchers in developing patient-centered comparative effectiveness research (CER) and an interactive Diagnostic Process Map to support education about the diagnostic process as conceptualized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) in a consensus report, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care.

Journey to Zero Patient Harm
Coalition to Improve Diagnosis member Advocate Aurora Health has made patient safety and diagnostic quality focus of their work. Read more about their diagnostic improvement activities in our newest issue of ACT Update.

This Winter, COVID-19 Is Not Your Only Health Concern
As you read this, COVID-19 may be spiking in your community for the second or third time. But when was the last time you saw your doctor? When were you supposed to have a colonoscopy, or a mammogram, or get your cholesterol checked? COVID-19 may be scary but ten more months of avoiding your doctor may be worse.

COVID-19: The Diagnostic Challenge
The December 2020 issue of Diagnosis, SIDM's peer-reviewed journal, is currently available online. This is a special issue on COVID-19: The Diagnostic Challenge, and all of the articles in this issue are free to access.
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