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Improving Diagnosis in Health Care.

Ball, John R.

Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (473 pages)

Intro -- FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Boxes, Figures, and Tables -- Acronyms and Abbrevations -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Diagnostic Process -- 3 Overview of Diagnostic Error in Health Care -- 4 Diagnostic Team Members and Tasks: Improving Patient Engagement and Health Care Professional Education and Training in Diagnosis -- 5 Technology and Tools in the Diagnostic Process -- 6 Organizational Characteristics, the Physical Environment, and the Diagnostic Process: Improving Learning, Culture, and the Work System -- 7 The External Environment Influencing Diagnosis: Reporting, Medical Liability, and Payment -- 8 A Research Agenda for the Diagnostic Process and Diagnostic Error -- 9 The Path to Improve Diagnosis and Reduce Diagnostic Error -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies -- Appendix C: Previous Diagnostic Error Frameworks -- Appendix D: Examples of Diagnostic Error.

9780309377706


Diagnosis-Methodology-Evaluation.
Diagnostic errors-United States-Prevention.


Electronic books.

RC71.3 .N385 2015

616.07/50289

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