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Diagnostic errors in medicine: a case of neglectMark Graber
VA Medical Center, Northport, NW, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:106-13. 2005..CONCLUSION: Clinicians and their health care organizations need to take active steps to discover, analyze, and prevent diagnostic errors...
Physician participation in quality management. Expanding the goals of peer review to detect both practitioner and system errorM L Graber
Medical Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Northport, New York 516 754 7907, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 25:396-407. 1999..A new system for conducting peer review was evaluated which included in every case a root cause analysis to identify latent system flaws and a consideration of performance improvement projects to remedy these flaws...
Educational strategies to reduce diagnostic error: can you teach this stuff?Mark L Graber
Medical Service, VAMC Northport, Northport, NY, USA
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 14:63-9. 2009..In the short term, education should emphasize the importance of reflective practice, and consider use of a checklist for diagnosis to improve reliability...
Next steps: envisioning a research agendaMark L Graber
VA Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 14:107-12. 2009..and error reduction. These included both system-level and cognitive interventions, with specific suggestions for each dimension...
Commentary: Reaching a milestone in diagnosing coeliac diseaseMark L Graber
VA Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
BMJ 334:732. 2007
Diagnostic error in internal medicineMark L Graber
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1493-9. 2005..The goal of this study was to determine the relative contribution of system-related and cognitive components to diagnostic error and to develop a comprehensive working taxonomy...
Metacognitive training to reduce diagnostic errors: ready for prime time?Mark Graber
Medical Service, VA Medical Center Northport, and Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York 11794 8430, USA
Acad Med 78:781. 2003..Although diagnostic errors can potentially be reduced by metacognitive training, that proposal (put forth by Croskerry in an accompanying article) needs validation and extensive exploration...
Performance of a web-based clinical diagnosis support system for internistsMark L Graber
Medical Service 111, VA Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:37-40. 2008..Clinical decision support systems can improve medical diagnosis and reduce diagnostic errors. Older systems, however, were cumbersome to use and had limited success in identifying the correct diagnosis in complicated cases...
Taking steps towards a safer future: measures to promote timely and accurate medical diagnosisMark L Graber
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York, USA
Am J Med 121:S43-6. 2008
Resources medical students use to derive a differential diagnosisMark L Graber
VA Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA
Med Teach 31:522-7. 2009..Software resources designed to complement clinical reasoning might be asset in helping them in this task...
Reducing diagnostic errors in medicine: what's the goal?Mark Graber
VA Medical Center, Northport, New York 11768, USA
Acad Med 77:981-92. 2002..g., second opinions, decision-support systems, enhanced access to specialists) and by training designed to improve cognition or cognitive awareness. Diagnostic error can be substantially reduced, but never eradicated...
Missed and delayed diagnoses in the ambulatory settingEta S Berner
Ann Intern Med 146:470; author reply 470-1. 2007
Overconfidence as a cause of diagnostic error in medicineEta S Berner
Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Am J Med 121:S2-23. 2008....
