Strategies to reduce diagnostic errors: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To evaluate the effectiveness of audit and communication strategies to reduce diagnostic errors made by clinicians.

Methods

MEDLINE complete, CINHAL complete, EMBASE, PSNet and Google Advanced. Electronic and manual search of articles on audit systems and communication strategies or interventions, searched for papers published between January 1990 and April 2017. We included studies with interventions implemented by clinicians in a clinical environment with real patients.

Results

A total of 2431 articles were screened of which 26 studies met inclusion criteria. Data extraction was conducted by two groups, each group comprising two independent reviewers. Articles were classified by communication (6) or audit strategies (20) to reduce diagnostic error in clin

SUBMITTER: Abimanyi-Ochom J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716834 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature