Identifying psychiatric diagnostic errors with the Safer Dx Instrument.

Terri L Fletcher; Ashley Helm; Viralkumar Vaghani; Mark E Kunik; Melinda A Stanley; Hardeep Singh

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Identifying psychiatric diagnostic errors with the Safer Dx Instrument.

September 30, 2020

Fletcher TL, Helm A, Vaghani V, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2020;32(6):405-411.

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This study adapted the Safer Dx tool to evaluate errors in anxiety diagnoses and found that it has a high reliability for detecting psychiatric diagnostic errors and that it warrants further testing in other psychiatric populations.

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