Assessment of the potential impact of a reminder system on the reduction of diagnostic errors: a quasi-experimental study

Ramnarayan, Padmanabhan; Roberts, Graham; Coren, Michael; Nanduri, Vasantha; Tomlinson, Amanda; Taylor, Paul; C Wyatt, Jeremy; Britto, Joseph

doi:10.1186/1472-6947-6-22

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Assessment of the potential impact of a reminder system on the reduction of diagnostic errors: a quasi-experimental study

Published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making • Apr 28, 2006

Authors:

Padmanabhan Ramnarayan

Graham Roberts

Michael Coren

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Computerized decision support systems (DSS) have mainly focused on improving clinicians' diagnostic accuracy in unusual and challenging cases. However, since diagnostic omission errors may predominantly result from incomplete workup in routine clinical practice, the provision of appropri...

Subject

Health informatics

Reduction (mathematics)

Medicine

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