Description
The purpose of this paper is to interpret the two articles identified as most important to the group topic. Group topic is: Improving Diagnostic Safety
Articles must be about 5 years or less
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Running head: IMPROVING DIAGNOSTIC SAFETY
Improving Diagnostic Safety
Student's Name
Course Number-Name of Course
Instructor’s Name
Date
IMPROVING DIAGNOSTIC SAFETY
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Clinical question
According to an IOM report, one out of twenty patients in an outpatient setting is affected
by diagnostic errors. How then can patient’s information be used to improve the safety on
diagnostics?
Description of problem and its significance
According to the National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) system,
there are more than 8000 diseases. This suggests a great likelihood of a patent being wrongly
diagnosed while seeking medical expertise. The diagnostic errors involve lack of overlapping
opportunities in making the correct and timely judgment. Early safety focused much on other
glaring problems for instance medication and procedure related errors since there was diff...