CDC's Core Elements to Promote Diagnostic Excellence.

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• Alternative Title:
  Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany), 2024, v. 12, no. 2: CDC's Core Elements to Promote Diagnostic Excellence.
• Journal Article:
  Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany)
• Personal Author:
  Morgan, Daniel J. ; Singh, Hardeep ; Srinivasan, Arjun ; Bradford, Andrea ; McDonald, L. Clifford ; Kutty, Preeta K.
• Description:
  Nearly a decade after the National Academy of Medicine released the "Improving Diagnosis in Health Care" report, diagnostic errors remain common, often leading to physical, psychological, emotional, and financial harm. Despite a robust body of research on potential solutions and next steps, the translation of these efforts to patient care has been limited. Improvement initiatives are still narrowly focused on selective themes such as diagnostic stewardship, preventing overdiagnosis, and enhancing clinical reasoning without comprehensively addressing vulnerable systems and processes surrounding diagnosis. To close this implementation gap, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Core Elements of Hospital Diagnostic Excellence programs on September 17, 2024. This initiative aligns with the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2024 World Patient Safety Day focus on improving diagnosis. These Core Elements provide guidance for the formation of hospital programs to improve diagnosis and aim to integrate various disparate efforts in hospitals. By creating a shared mental model of diagnostic excellence, the Core Elements of Diagnostic Excellence supports actions to break down silos, guide hospitals toward multidisciplinary diagnostic excellence teams, and provide a foundation for building diagnostic excellence programs in hospitals.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
  • Diagnostic Errors
  • Quality Improvement
  • Patient Safety
  • Hospitals
• Keywords:
  • diagnostic excellence
  • diagnosis
  • core elements
• Source:
  Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany), 2024, v. 12, no. 2
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2024-0163
• ISSN:
  2194-8011 ; 2194-802X
• Pubmed ID:
  39602334
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC12105987
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HS028595/HS/AHRQ HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HS029318/HS/AHRQ HHSUnited States/ ; R18 HS029347/HS/AHRQ HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  197-200 (7 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/262134/cdc_262134_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 195.78 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1afe5db390d3b3a95d02caded01492c78094e922cafb72965a940bbbb409405c29a96689d2c4624343e44c0ac455156bdbdcd41412f868309123c77c2fea5f54