, assistant professor of medicine and health services research at Baylor College of Medicine and the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt) at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, has been selected as one of 10 scholars for the National Academy of Medicine’s Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence program. This inaugural cohort of scholars was competitively selected from a wide variety of U.S. health professionals pursuing work to reduce misdiagnosis in healthcare.
“The National Academy of Medicine program is a unique opportunity to continue my patient safety work and receive additional training and mentorship in health equity and disparities in the diagnostic process,” Giardina said.
Patient Safety Watchdog The Leapfrog Group Funded for National Initiative on Preventing Harm from Diagnostic Error
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization of employers and other purchasers focused on patient safety and quality, today announced
Recognizing Excellence in Diagnosis
, a new national initiative to publicly report and recognize hospitals for preventing patient harm due to diagnostic errors. Developed in collaboration with The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and key experts, the project is funded with a two-year grant of $1.2 million by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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A quarter century ago, hospitalists didn t exist. Now, these specialists in hospital medicine are managing the care of countless North American patients with COVID-19. They ve learned plenty over the past 10 months, and five from across the country shared pro tips with
MedPage Today about providing optimal care.
Watch Out for Atypical Presentations
Physicians are taught that common things are common simple diagnoses are usually correct, said Benji Mathews, MD, a HealthPartners physician and chief of hospital medicine at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. But COVID is different, he said. If you hear hoofbeats, you are more likely to see a horse, unless you are in an evolving COVID-19 pandemic. Then it may be a zebra, said Mathews. Try to think of COVID-19 manifestations in the differential for patients with atypical manifestations of common disease.
Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Launches Two New Quality and Safety Resources
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The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) has released a new online toolkit to support diagnostic quality and safety researchers in developing patient-centered comparative effectiveness research (CER) and an interactive Diagnostic Process Map to support education about the diagnostic process as conceptualized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) in a consensus report, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care.
“Diagnostic errors continue to persist as a serious challenge to deliver high quality care, and I’m hopeful these resources from SIDM will translate into meaningful improvements in patient care and outcomes, said John R. Ball.