Communication Breakdowns Drive Diagnostic Failure in Emergency Medicine

In Research and Publication
The Journal of American College of Surgeons study reports that a multisource evaluation tool used in other industries is accurate and well-accepted by surgical teams.

A new report by CRICO and Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence provides the first national estimate of permanent morbidity and mortality resulting from diagnostic errors across all clinical settings. The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) works to raise awareness of the burden of diagnostic error as a major public health issue and calls for collaboration and policy action on the issue.

A CRICO grant helped provide research support for a new system developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology to assist hospital staff in scheduling room assignments and suggesting which nurses to assign to patients for C-sections and other procedures.