Measure Dx: implementing pathways to discover and learn from diagnostic errors.

Andrea Bradford; Marjorie Shofer; Hardeep Singh

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Measure Dx: implementing pathways to discover and learn from diagnostic errors.

September 28, 2022

Bradford A, Shofer M, Singh H. Int J Qual Health Care. 2022;34(3):mzac068.

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Learning from diagnostic error is a complex undertaking. This commentary introduces Measure Dx, a tool providing guidance for health care organizations to identify and evaluate diagnostic errors to support improvement.

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