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Quality Improvement Checklists to Reduce Diagnostic Errors
Diagnostic errors are common and can often be traced to physicians’ cognitive biases and failed heuristics (mental shortcuts). A great deal is known about how these faulty thinking processes lead to error, but little is known about how to prevent them. Faulty thinking plagues other high-risk, high-reliability professions, such as airline pilots and nuclear plant operators, but these professions...
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Considering the complex nature of medical practice, however, and the multitude of interventions that each patient receives, a high error rate in medicine is perhaps not surprising. Health care professionals such as physicians, nurses, and pharmacists are trained to be careful and to function at a high level of efficiency. Notwithstanding, if a system is working at 99.9% efficiency, the 0.1% err...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiotherapy and Oncology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0167-8140
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(19)31039-4