Interventions That Can Help Reduce Diagnostic Errors

Diagnostic errors in medicine continue to be a large problem for effective healthcare delivery.  As a result, moderate and severe consequences from the errors, including death, account for 75% of diagnostic errors in the United States.  "Interventions That Can Help Reduce Diagnostic Errors" was published in the July 2018 issue of The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine.  The editorial discusses the associated JALM Review "The Definition and Scope of Diagnostic Error in the US and How Diagnostic Error is Enabled" by Dr. Michael Laposata. The authors of the editorial are Dr. Michael Astion and Dr. Jane Dickerson.