Diagnostic Quality Improvement Repository.

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Diagnostic Quality Improvement Repository.

January 10, 2024

Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.

Rapid dissemination and review of new improvements actively being used can aid in the spread of innovations that improve care. This searchable database of professional-submitted diagnostic process improvements aims to collect information on tools and tactics organized around problems, contributing factors, organization type, and intervention characteristics.

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The Guide for Hospital and Health System Leaders for Diagnostic Quality and Safety.

September 16, 2020

Patient and Family Advisory Council Leader's Guide for Diagnostic Quality and Safety.

September 9, 2020

Improving Telediagnosis: A Call to Action.

April 14, 2021

Transforming Education on Diagnostic Reasoning: Ready, Set, Go!

June 2, 2021

TeleDx: How is Telemedicine Working - and not Working - to Support Diagnosis?

June 3, 2021 - June 3, 2021

Improving Telediagnosis--a Call to Action: Final Project Findings.

October 13, 2021

Fellowship in Diagnostic Excellence.

January 30, 2024

ImproveDX.

March 26, 2014

Patient's Toolkit for Diagnosis.

October 12, 2018

Diagnosis.

January 22, 2014

Clinical Reasoning Toolkit.

October 2, 2013

ACT for Better Diagnosis.

September 19, 2018

Assessment of Reasoning Tool.

November 1, 2017

Clearing the Error: Using Public Deliberation to Define Patient Roles as Partners in the Diagnostic Process.

November 8, 2017

Diagnostic Excellence.

October 11, 2017

Mark Graber Diagnostic Quality & Safety Award.

August 30, 2023

Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) Toolkit for Exploring Diagnostic Quality.

February 21, 2024

Taking action to close the loop on diagnostic error: a Constellation and SIDM Collaborative.

June 1, 2021 - June 1, 2022

Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. DxQI Seed Grant Program.

December 7, 2021

A diagnostic time-out to improve differential diagnosis in pediatric abdominal pain.

July 14, 2021

Diagnostic error as a result of drug-laboratory test interactions.

March 6, 2019

Research to improve diagnosis: time to study the real world.

January 26, 2022

Real-world virtual patient simulation to improve diagnostic performance through deliberate practice: a prospective quasi-experimental study.

December 15, 2021

Diagnostic time-outs to improve diagnosis.

April 20, 2022

Use of a structured approach and virtual simulation practice to improve diagnostic reasoning.

February 23, 2022

Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety.

December 10, 2008

Optimizing Graduate Medical Trainee (Resident) Hours and Work Schedules to Improve Patient Safety.

February 27, 2008

Narrowing the mindware gap in medicine.

July 20, 2022

Emergency medicine physicians' perspectives on diagnostic accuracy in neurology: a qualitative study.

July 6, 2022

Automated identification of diagnostic labelling errors in medicine.

June 8, 2022

Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System.

January 14, 2015

MRI Safety Week.

June 27, 2007

Transitions of Care Consensus Policy Statement American College of Physicians-Society of General Internal Medicine-Society of Hospital Medicine-American Geriatrics Society-American College of Emergency Physicians-Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

April 22, 2009

A call to action: next steps to advance diagnosis education in the health professions.

June 8, 2022

Using clinical simulation to study how to improve quality and safety in healthcare.

September 29, 2018

Techniques to improve patient safety in hospitals: what nurse administrators need to know.

September 19, 2012

Analysis of lawsuits related to diagnostic errors from point-of-care ultrasound in internal medicine, paediatrics, family medicine and critical care in the USA.

June 24, 2020

Education initiatives in cognitive debiasing to improve diagnostic accuracy in student providers: a scoping review.

November 11, 2020

In situ simulation for adoption of new technology to improve sepsis care in rural emergency departments.

June 22, 2022

Using the NAM diagnostic process framework to teach clinical reasoning in computerized case presentations to 251 medical students.

September 9, 2020

Using Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis to improve safety in the cancer treatment prescription and administration process.

March 8, 2023

User-testing guidelines to improve the safety of intravenous medicines administration: a randomised in situ simulation study.

July 29, 2020

The effectiveness of interruptive prescribing alerts in ambulatory CPOE to change prescriber behaviour and improve safety.

May 5, 2021

How can regulatory authorities improve safety in organizations by influencing safety culture? A conceptual model of the relationships and a discussion of implications.

July 14, 2021

Implementing a watcher program to improve timeliness of recognition of deterioration in hospitalized children.

June 30, 2021

Human factors and ergonomics to improve performance in intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic.

June 2, 2021

The critical role of health information technology in the safe integration of behavioral health and primary care to improve patient care.

November 10, 2021

Impact of a nationwide prospective drug utilization review program to improve prescribing safety of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults: an interrupted time series with segmented regression analysis.

November 4, 2020

Learning from diagnostic errors to improve patient safety when GPs work in or alongside emergency departments: incorporating realist methodology into patient safety incident report analysis.

January 12, 2022

Implementation of participatory organizational change in long term care to improve safety.

September 1, 2021

Psychological intervention to improve communication and patient safety in obstetrics: examination of the health action process approach.

April 13, 2022

Journal Article

Study

Patient Safety Innovations

Implementing a watcher program to improve timeliness of recognition of deterioration in hospitalized children

April 7, 2022

Developing strategic recommendations for implementing smart pumps in advanced healthcare systems to improve intravenous medication safety.

November 16, 2022

Engaging with ethnic minority consumers to improve safety in cancer services: a national stakeholder analysis.

May 25, 2022

Engaging patients in the use of real-time electronic clinical data to improve the safety and reliability of their own care.

May 4, 2022

Voluntary medical incident reporting tool to improve physician reporting of medical errors in an emergency department.

February 17, 2016

Identifying risk in the use of tumor markers to improve patient safety.

May 4, 2016

Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care.

September 1, 2017

Didactic and simulation nontechnical skills team training to improve perinatal patient outcomes in a community hospital.

August 10, 2011

Implementation of safeguards to improve patient safety in chemotherapy.

September 20, 2017

Interdisciplinary collaboration across secondary and primary care to improve medication safety in the elderly (The IMMENSE study) - a randomized controlled trial.

November 30, 2022

Early diagnosis of cancer: systems approach to support clinicians in primary care.

April 5, 2023

Validation of an electronic trigger to measure missed diagnosis of stroke in emergency departments.

August 25, 2021

From principles to practice: embedding clinical reasoning as a longitudinal curriculum theme in a medical school programme.

June 15, 2022

Defining diagnostic error: a scoping review to assess the impact of the National Academies' report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care.

May 25, 2022

A structured approach to EHR surveillance of diagnostic error in acute care: an exploratory analysis of two institutionally-defined case cohorts.

December 7, 2022

Joint Statement on Multiple Patients Per Ventilator.

April 22, 2020

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: curriculum outline on patient safety and quality for maternal-fetal medicine fellows.

March 22, 2023

Effects of racial bias in pulse oximetry on children and how to address algorithmic bias in clinical medicine.

April 5, 2023

Team-based approach to improving medication reconciliation rates in family medicine residency clinics.

October 7, 2020

A survey of outpatient internal medicine clinician perceptions of diagnostic error.

February 5, 2020

Drive to Deprescribe.

June 23, 2021

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Surgical safety checklists for cesarean delivery.

September 22, 2021

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: a critique of postpartum readmission rate as a quality metric.

May 18, 2022

Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Opioids Implementation Guide.

January 27, 2016

Medication Reconciliation for Hospitalists.

December 18, 2013

Advancing Successful Care Transitions to Improve Outcomes.

June 12, 2013

Disclosure of medical errors involving gametes and embryos.

November 9, 2011

Discrepancy between emergency department admission diagnosis and hospital discharge diagnosis and its impact on length of stay, up-triage to the intensive care unit, and mortality.

February 16, 2022

Improving diagnosis: adding context to cognition.

September 7, 2022

Pharmacist-led program to improve transitions from acute care to skilled nursing facility care.

July 8, 2020

A systems approach to evaluating ionizing radiation: six focus areas to improve quality, efficiency, and patient safety.

June 24, 2015

Engaging patients and informal caregivers to improve safety and facilitate person- and family-centered care during transitions from hospital to home: a qualitative descriptive study.

July 10, 2019

From tasks to processes: the case for changing health information technology to improve health care.

April 1, 2009

Think twice: effects on diagnostic accuracy of returning to the case to reflect upon the initial diagnosis.

September 23, 2020

Patient generated research priorities to improve diagnostic safety: a systematic prioritization exercise.

April 5, 2023

Managing interruptions to improve diagnostic decision-making: strategies and recommended research agenda.

March 29, 2023

For children admitted to hospital, what interventions improve medication safety on ward rounds?

March 1, 2023

Defining and enhancing collaboration between community pharmacists and primary care providers to improve medication safety.

February 22, 2023

Standardized orders for titrating vasopressors: do efforts to improve safety slow delivery of care?

September 11, 2019

The potential of artificial intelligence to improve patient safety: a scoping review.

March 31, 2021

Results and lessons from a hospital-wide initiative incentivised by delivery system reform to improve infection prevention and sepsis care.

March 17, 2021

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June 30, 2021

How can never event data be used to reflect or improve hospital safety performance?

May 19, 2021

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October 20, 2021

Dual surgeon operating to improve patient safety.

September 29, 2021

Using radiofrequency technology to prevent retained sponges and improve patient outcomes.

October 28, 2020

A quality improvement initiative to improve patient safety event reporting by residents.

February 9, 2022

February 2, 2022

Indication alerts to improve problem list documentation.

January 26, 2022

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Error codes at autopsy to study potential biases in diagnostic error.

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Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors.

August 2, 2023

Maternal Health of Women and Girls of African Descent in the Americas.

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Issues and complexities in safety culture assessment in healthcare.

July 19, 2023

Identifying a list of healthcare 'never events' to effect system change: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.

July 12, 2023

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May 3, 2023

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Patient generated research priorities to improve diagnostic safety: a systematic prioritization exercise.

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