MEASURES TO INCREASE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CENTRALIZING CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY ANALYSES AT THE LEVEL OF FAMILY POLYCLINICS
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https://doi.org/10.5281/Abstract
Up to one-third of medical errors are linked to diagnostic errors, making them the third most common cause of death in the US. According to estimates from extensive observational studies of the US population, one in twenty persons may experience a diagnostic error at some point in their lives, according to a 2014 study by Singh et al. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a report released in 2015 by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly known as the Institute of Medicine, emphasized the urgent need to recognize and correct flaws in the diagnostic process. For the purposes of this manuscript, diagnostic excellence is defined as a systems-level state that successfully combines medical knowledge, expertise, and resources to continuously and quantifiably improve diagnoses and lower the risk or occurrence of diagnostic errors while still meeting the needs of patients and health systems as a whole [1,2,3].
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