ImproveDX.

Newsletter/Journal

March 26, 2014

Evanston, IL: Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.

Diagnostic errors have been termed the next frontier in patient safety. To raise awareness of this issue, this bi-monthly newsletter features articles for a multidisciplinary audience that discuss barriers to and solutions for reducing errors related to diagnosis.

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