WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: December 1, 2015 Featuring: Mark Graber, MD, FACP, President, Society to Improve Diagnosis In Medicine; Senior Fellow, RTI International Thomas Gallagher, MD, FACP, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Medicine; Director, Hospital Medicine and Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety, University of Washington Kedar Mate, MD, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Jennifer Lenoci-Edwards, RN, MPH, CPPS, Director, Patient Safety, IHI In September 2015, the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report on diagnostic errors in the US, and the news wasn’t good: one in 20 adults suffers a diagnostic error every year. The report offers a two-part definition of diagnostic error: “the failure to (a) establish an accurate and timely explanation of the patient’s health problem(s) or (b) communicate that explanation to the patient.” And it shines a light on the multiple factors that cause diagnostic errors – ranging from cognitive failures on the part of d