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Diagnostic errors are medicine’s blind spot, and need urgent action, according to a report, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, released on 22 September by the U.S. Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care. Other types of medical errors have traditionally received more attention in healthcare, but the spotlight needs to turn on diagnosis, they say: “Improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but it also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative.” Multidisciplinary teamwork, with radiologists and pathologists as integral members of the diagnostic team, leadership and patient involvement are all required to improve the situation.
When hospital patients outside the ICU become unstable, many facilities have medical emergency teams (MET) in place to rapidly respond. But are events warranting MET calls more common in a radiology department (RD) than in a general ward? Lora Ott, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues have published the results of their research into this area in the Journal of Radiology Nursing. And the finding that such events are more common in the RD, when adjusted to length of stay, have led to increased awareness by imaging department staff of the potential for patient instability in the RD, Ott told HealthManagement.org. Previous research by Ott and colleagues found that risk factors for...
