Medical Economics January 26, 2022
Researchers suggest thinking in terms of “pitfalls” would improve process.
Efforts to understand and prevent diagnostic errors in medicine usually focus on classifying these errors either as cognitive—such as knowledge gaps or biases—or systemic, such as communication breakdowns. But the authors of a recently-published study suggest that a better way to understand and address such errors is in terms of “diagnostic pitfalls”—situations in which clinicians are most likely to make to miss, delay, or make an incorrect diagnosis.
In a paper published on JAMA Network Open, the authors note the emergence of evidence suggesting most diagnostic errors result from a combination of both systemic and cognitive factors. Consequently, they sought a new framework, one that “bridges this overlap and that...
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