Becker's Healthcare February 21, 2024
To tackle the persistent challenge of diagnostic errors, the American Medical Association and National Quality Forum have partnered to establish standards for collecting and sharing patient symptom data in clinical care.
Despite their critical role in leading clinicians to make accurate diagnoses, symptom data are not consistently documented in EHRs. The collaboration between NQF and AMA will seek early input from clinicians to develop actionable data standards, the groups said in a Feb. 21 news release.
“[Patients] want the clinicians who care for them to be equipped with the right information at the right time to make the best diagnoses possible,” Elizabeth Drye, MD, chief scientific officer at NQF, said in a news release. “For patient safety and...
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