Accuracy of the Safer Dx Instrument to Identify Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Diagnostic errors are common and harmful, but difficult to define and measure. Measurement of diagnostic errors often depends on retrospective medical record reviews, frequently resulting in reviewer disagreement.

Objectives

We aimed to test the accuracy of an instrument to help detect presence or absence of diagnostic error through record reviews.

Design

We gathered questions from several previously used instruments for diagnostic error measurement, then developed and refined our instrument. We tested the accuracy of the instrument against a sample of patient records (n = 389), with and without previously identified diagnostic errors (n = 129 and n = 260, respectively).

Results

The final version of our instrument (titled Safer Dx Instrument) consist

SUBMITTER: Al-Mutairi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4870415 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature