A structured approach to EHR surveillance of diagnostic error in acute care: an exploratory analysis of two institutionally-defined case cohorts.

Maria A Malik; Daniel Motta-Calderon; Nicholas Piniella; Alison Garber; Kaitlyn Konieczny; Alyssa Lam; Savanna Plombon; Kevin Carr; Catherine S. Yoon; Jacqueline Griffin; Stuart Lipsitz; Jeffrey L. Schnipper; David W. Bates; Anuj K Dalal

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A structured approach to EHR surveillance of diagnostic error in acute care: an exploratory analysis of two institutionally-defined case cohorts.

December 7, 2022

Malik MA, Motta-Calderon D, Piniella N, et al. Diagnosis (Berl). 2022;9(4):446-457.

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Structured tools are increasingly used to identify diagnostic errors and related harms using electronic health record data. In this study, researchers compared the performance of two validated tools (Safer Dx and the DEER taxonomy) to identify diagnostic errors among patients with preventable or non-preventable deaths. Findings indicate that diagnostic errors and diagnostic process failures contributing to death were higher in preventable deaths (56%) but were also present in non-preventable deaths (17%).

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