In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...

Two things were missing from previous attempts by the Institute of Medicine to shine light on the epidemic of medical harm in U.S. healthcare: diagnostic error and a ...

Diagnostic errors, including missed diagnoses and misdiagnoses, are an increasingly recognized concern within healthcare. In a 2015 New England Journal of Medicine-published report, The National ...

Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, ...

When the Institute of Medicine came out last month with a report saying almost every American will experience a medical diagnostic error, Leslie Michelson wasn't surprised. He runs Private Health ...

The Institute of Medicine's latest landmark report offers a number of suggestions for improving the care and systems we have in place as they relate to the problem of ill-defined and under-reported ...

Improving diagnosis in health care is a moral, professional and public health imperative, according to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. However, little is known about the full scope of harms ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Norman Swan: Last week on the Health Report we covered how the health system can take a systematic ...

When Lisa Morrise gave birth to her youngest daughter Kirsten, doctors told her the baby was experiencing serious respiratory problems but they weren't sure why. "She just wasn't getting enough oxygen ...

]This study is a continuation of the IOM Quality Chasm Series, which focuses on assessing and improving the quality and safety of health care. The charge to the ...