What if?: Transforming Diagnostic Research by Leveraging a Diagnostic Process Map to Engage Patients in Learning from Errors.

Sue Sheridan; Patricia Merryweather; Diana Rusz; Gordon Schiff

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What if?: Transforming Diagnostic Research by Leveraging a Diagnostic Process Map to Engage Patients in Learning from Errors.

March 4, 2020

Sheridan S, Merryweather P, Rusz D, et al. Washington, DC: National Academy of Medicine; 2020.

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Safety initiatives can be enhanced by engaging patients in the development process. This report highlights one project as an example of how to involve patients as partners in diagnostic improvement research projects. The program resulted in a curriculum that prepared patients to participate as team members in diagnostic improvement studies.

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