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Patient safety strategies targeted at diagnostic errors: a systematic review.
March 13, 2013
McDonald KM, Matesic B, Contopoulos-Ioannidis DG, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(5 Pt 2):381-389.
Conducted as part of the AHRQ Making Health Care Safer II report, this article reviews the expanding research base in diagnostic error prevention. Several promising systems-based interventions were identified that seemed to reduce diagnostic errors, although the strength of evidence for these strategies was low.
