Diagnostic errors have emerged as a serious patient safety problem but they are hard to detect and complex to define. At the research summit of the 2013 Diagnostic Error in Medicine 6th International Conference, we convened a multidisciplinary expert panel to discuss challenges in defining and measuring diagnostic errors in real-world settings. In this paper, we synthesize these discussions and...

Diagnostic errors are common and costly, but difficult to detect. "Trigger" tools have promise to facilitate detection, but have not been applied specifically for inpatient diagnostic error. We performed a scoping review to collate all individual "trigger" criteria that have been developed or validated that may indicate that an inpatient diagnostic error has occurred. We searched three database...

Researchers agree that error diagnosis is one of the most important components of an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS). Since in ambitious domains a perfect error diagnosis can not be guaranteed, the diagnostic accuracy of an ITS within an ill-defined domain should attract more attention. In this paper we introduce our constraint-based error diagnosis approach for logic programming and demonstr...

BACKGROUND Despite an increasing emphasis on patient safety on the part of healthcare systems worldwide, diagnostic error remains common. Errors frequently result in significant clinical consequences and persist despite remarkable advances in diagnostic technology. Most medical students and physician trainees receive little instruction regarding both the root causes of diagnostic errors and how...

Diagnostic Performance by Medical Students Working Individually or in Teams Diagnostic errors contribute substantially to preventable medical error.' Cognitive error is among the leading causes and mostly results from faulty data synthesis. Furthermore, reflecting on their confidence does not prevent physicians from committing diagnostic errors.' Diagnostic decisions usually are not made by ind...