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Improving Diagnosis In Danish Healthcare

Dec 01, 2019

The Danish Society for Patient Safety and Danish Patient Compensation Association (DPCA) wrote, “Our tool was translated and adapted from a tool originally designed by the American organization CRICO (...) to analyze and learn from malpractice claims.” For this study, more than 200 diagnostic-error related cases were selected from the DPCA’s records to be audited by medical experts. The tool enabled researchers to identify and analyze contributing factors that could help improve diagnostic safety and prevent errors.

Citation for the Full-text Article

Veje til bedre diagnoser [Improving diagnosis in Danish healthcare]. Danish Society for Patient Safety and the Danish Patient Compensation Association. December 2019.



Note: A PDF of the English translation of the article is available below for download. Permission was granted by the publisher.

First Published – December 01, 2019

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