Jeffrey L Schnipper, Katie E Raffel, Angela Keniston, Marisha Burden, Jeffrey Glasheen, Sumant Ranji, Colin Hubbard, Peter Barish, Molly Kantor, Julia Adler-Milstein, W John Boscardin, James D Harrison, Anuj K Dalal, Tiffany Lee, Andrew Auerbach
BACKGROUND: Few hospitals have built surveillance for diagnostic errors into usual care or used comparative quantitative and qualitative data to understand their diagnostic processes and implement interventions designed to reduce these errors. OBJECTIVES: To build surveillance for diagnostic errors into usual care, benchmark diagnostic performance across sites, pilot test interventions, and evaluate the program's impact on diagnostic error rates. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Achieving diagnostic excellence through prevention and teamwork (ADEPT) is a multicenter, real-world quality and safety program utilizing interrupted time-series techniques to evaluate outcomes...
October 27, 2023: Journal of Hospital Medicine: An Official Publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine