Healthcare Innovation August 25, 2022
David Raths

Measure Dx guide outline a series of steps to begin and sustain measurement of diagnostic safety

The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has introduced a new clinical tool, Measure Dx, that health systems can use to help prevent diagnostic errors. In a recent blog post, Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A., director of AHRQ, said the new tool “offers practical guidance and modular, scalable strategies to detect and learn from diagnostic safety events.”

The Measure Dx program was led by the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, under the direction...

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