BACKGROUND The Improving Diagnosis in Health Care report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) provided an opportunity for many groups to reflect on the role they could play in taking actions to improve diagnostic safety. As part of its own process, AHRQ held a research summit in the fall of 2016, inviting members from a diverse collection of organizations, b...

Major health agencies now recommend the systematic application of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) for the diagnosis of hypertension. Given the exceedingly high prevalence of nocturnal hypertension, masked and white coat hypertension and the overt inadequacy of peridialysis (pre-, intra- and post-dialysis) BP measurements, more extensive application of ABPM for the diagnosis of hyper...

Literature on organizational learning (OL) shows that even firms who self-perceive themselves to have appropriate structures still fail generate outcomes. In this article, we claim one of the neglected key factors explaining failures are defensive routines (ODRs). Drawing literature, our theoretical inference is high levels ODRs can negatively moderate relationship between and OL. To test moder...

Abstract The diagnostic phase is the essential part of consultancy cycle, providing client with interpretable data and systematic approaches to improve consultation effectiveness, however, there are still areas for improvement in frameworks, analysis, client-consultant communication. This paper will demonstrate that although diagnosis an ongoing activity a crucial node linking whole it requires...

Anesthesiologists perform a broad spectrum of tasks. However, in many countries, there is no legal basis for personnel staffing of physicians in anesthesia. Also, the German diagnosis related groups system for refunding does not deliver such a basis. Thus, in 2006 a new calculation base for the personnel requirement that included an Excel calculation sheet was introduced by the German Board of ...