Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Quality and Patient Safety Division ______________________________________________________________________________ Advisory Diagnostic Process in Inpatient and Emergency Department Settings March 2016 Background The Quality and Patient Safety Division (QPSD) has received a number of Safety and Quality Review (SQR) reports of pa...

Diagnostic errors are common and are a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction and malpractice suits. Because of its traditional heavy reliance on memory and lack of standardization, the diagnostic process is particularly error prone. A study by Zwaan and colleagues on diagnostic failures in treating dyspneic patients makes several important contributions: examining the process behind the diag...

AIMS To determine the reasons for diagnostic error by virtual slides which allow unsupervised study of diagnosis and error. METHODS AND RESULTS Software was developed to produce visualizations of the diagnostic track followed by pathologists as they viewed virtual slides. These showed the diagnostic path in four dimensions (x, y, time and zoom), areas studied for >1000 ms, and included pathol...

Outliers and influential observations have important effects on the regression analysis. The goal of this paper is to extend the mean-shift model for detecting outliers in case of ridge regression model in the presence of stochastic linear restrictions when the error terms follow by an autoregressive AR(1) process. Furthermore, extensions of measures for diagnosing influential observations are ...

medication error (me) is the most common preventable cause of adverse drug events which negatively affects patient safety. inadequate, low-quality studies plus wide estimation variations in me from developing countries including iran, decreases the reliability of me evaluations. to clarify sources, underreporting reasons and preventive measures of mes, we reviewed iran current available literat...

background clinical decision support systems (cdss or cds) are interactive computer programs, which are designed to assist physicians and other health professionals with decision making tasks. the main purpose of modern cdss is to assist clinicians at the point of care. this means that a clinician would interact with a cdss to help determine diagnosis, analysis, etc. of patient data. material a...