Background: The development and adoption of a learning health system (LHS) has been
proposed as a means to address key challenges facing current and future health care …

Background Errors in reasoning are a common cause of diagnostic error. However, it is
difficult to improve performance partly because providers receive little feedback on …

• Diagnosis is a process that is influenced by systems, cognitive, teamwork, and social
factors that may either enhance or reduce diagnostic accuracy• Clinicians can integrate …

Abstract Background The 21st Century Cures Act mandates patients' access to their
electronic health record (EHR) notes. To our knowledge, no previous work has …

Background Patient complaints are associated with adverse events and malpractice claims
but underused in patient safety improvement. Objective To systematically evaluate the use of …

When physicians do not estimate their diagnostic accuracy correctly, ie show inaccurate
diagnostic calibration, diagnostic errors or overtesting can occur. A previous study showed …

Background Most health care organizations (HCOs) find diagnostic errors hard to address.
The research team developed a checklist (the Safer Dx Checklist) of 10 high-priority safety …

Introduction Endoscopic ultrasonography guided tissue acquisition (EUS+ TA) is used to
provide a tissue diagnosis in patients with suspected pancreatic cancer. Key performance …

Diagnostic errors are associated with patient harm and suboptimal outcomes. Despite
national scientific efforts to advance definition, measurement and interventions for diagnostic …

Objective Diagnostic errors are major contributors to preventable patient harm. We validated
the use of an electronic health record (EHR)-based trigger (e-trigger) to measure missed …