Webinar: Reducing Harm by Getting Patients the Right Diagnosis at the Right Time
Diagnostic errors are the most common, catastrophic and costly of all medical errors—resulting in thousands of patients suffering serious harm every year.
Watch this SIDM-sponsored Modern Healthcare webinar to learn how to understand diagnostic error, when and where misdiagnoses are most likely to take place, how to track areas for improvement in diagnostic quality, and best practices that systems can employ to improve the diagnostic process.
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Upcoming #TeachDx Twitter Chat
Join us on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 8:00 pm CST for our next #TeachDx Twitter chat in collaboration with #MedStudentChat on Learning Clinical Reasoning in Medical School.
Medical testing’s dirty little secret and how you can protect yourself
Though the vast majority of tests are conducted correctly, and reported quickly and accurately to the healthcare professional and the patient, understanding how the testing process can and does go wrong can give you an opportunity to protect yourself.
Feeling Dismissed and Ignored by Your Doctor? Do this.
Trust is an essential part of healthcare. When we feel poorly, we visit our doctor with our hopes high, trusting that she will help us heal. But what if we feel like our trust isn’t returned? What if our symptoms are dismissed or our story considered unlikely?
Bipartisan Legislation Increasing Research Funding to Improve Diagnosis Introduced in U.S. House
Bipartisan legislation, Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Act of 2019, was introduced by U.S. House Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) on November 13.
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