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Reducing Diagnostic Error: Measurement Considerations.

August 14, 2019

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This website tracks the progress of a project focused on the development and review of measures to enhance viability, reporting, accountability, and impact of health care organization efforts to reduce diagnostic error. The committee's final report is now available.

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