Primary care pediatricians’ interest in diagnostic error reduction

Identification of factors associated with diagnostic error in primary care

BACKGROUND Missed, delayed or incorrect diagnoses are considered to be diagnostic errors. The aim of this paper is to describe the methodology of a study to analyse cognitive aspects of the process by which primary care (PC) physicians diagnose dyspnoea. It examines the possible links between the use of heuristics, suboptimal cognitive acts and diagnostic errors, using Reason's taxonomy of huma...

Training pediatricians for primary medical care.

Racial differences in antibiotic prescribing by primary care pediatricians.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether racial differences exist in antibiotic prescribing among children treated by the same clinician. METHODS Retrospective cohort study of 1,296,517 encounters by 208,015 children to 222 clinicians in 25 practices in 2009. Clinical, antibiotic prescribing, and demographic data were obtained from a shared electronic health record. We estimated within-clinician associ...

Growing interest in primary care research.

Educational agenda for diagnostic error reduction

Diagnostic errors are a major patient safety concern. Although the majority of diagnostic errors are partially attributable to cognitive mistakes, the most effective means of improving clinician cognition in order to achieve gains in diagnostic reliability are unclear. We propose a tripartite educational agenda for improving diagnostic performance among students, residents and practising physic...