MEDICAL ERROR PREVENTION, ANALYSIS, AND COMMON AREAS
Tracking # 20-550174
Course overview
According to the Institute of Medicine Report, there is substantial evidence that 1 in every 10 diagnoses is wrong. To improve the quality of healthcare and patient safety, physicians should know the causes of medical errors (cognitive, system-related, overconfidence) how to find them (root cause analysis), and how to address them. Solutions involve changes made by the physician and the healthcare system. Also patients can play an important role in addressing solutions to medical diagnostic errors. Finally, the Florida Board of Medicine has identified five areas of commonly misdiagnosed medical conditions and these are discussed with examples and possible solutions.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.