AHRQ Views: In the COVID-19 Era, Let’s Not Squander the Opportunity to Improve Diagnostic Safety

View as a webpage Diagnostic Safety in the COVID Era: Let's Not Squander the Opportunity The urgent challenge of improving diagnostic safety in the era of COVID-19 is the subject of a new AHRQ Views blog post by Agency Director Gopal Khanna, M.B.A., and Jeff Brady, M.D., M.P.H., director of AHRQ's Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. It is estimated that 12 million people per year are affected by diagnostic errors, with approximately 4 million suffering serious harm. AHRQ regards diagnostic safety as an important new frontier in patient safety research. The Agency's collaboration with the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine underscores AHRQ's commitment, and a recent publication by AHRQ grantees provides an important framework for considering COVID-19-related diagnostic errors. Read the Full Blog Post Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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