Peer review comments augment diagnostic error characterization and departmental quality assurance: 1-year experience from a children's hospital.

Ramesh S Iyer; Jonathan O Swanson; Randolph K Otto; Edward Weinberger

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Peer review comments augment diagnostic error characterization and departmental quality assurance: 1-year experience from a children's hospital.

April 3, 2013

Iyer RS, Swanson JO, Otto RK, et al. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2013;200(1):132-7.

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This study describes a peer review process to identify diagnostic errors in radiology. Using non-blinded peer review, seven types of diagnostic errors were classified.

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