The patient is in: patient involvement strategies for diagnostic error mitigation
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The patient is in: patient involvement strategies for diagnostic error mitigation
Although healthcare quality and patient safety have longstanding international attention, the target of reducing diagnostic errors has only recently gained prominence, even though numerous patients, families and professional caregivers have suffered from diagnostic mishaps for a long time. Similarly, patients have always been involved in their own care to some extent, but only recently have pat...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Quality & Safety
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2044-5415,2044-5423
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2012-001623