A diagnostic time-out to improve differential diagnosis in pediatric abdominal pain.
Kasick RT, Melvin JE, Perera ST, et al. A diagnostic time-out to improve differential diagnosis in pediatric abdominal pain. Diagnosis (Berl). 2021;8(2):209-217. doi:10.1515/dx-2019-0054.
Diagnostic errors can result in increased length of stay and unplanned hospital readmissions. To reduce readmissions, this hospital implemented a diagnostic time-out to increase the frequency of documented differential diagnosis in pediatric patients admitted with abdominal pain. Results showed marginal improvement in quality of differential diagnosis.