Resources

• Patient and Family Advisory Council Guides - Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
• Patient's Toolkit - Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine

 

In the News

• Academy Health: Translating Research to Practice: Recommended Practices for Hospitals to Reduce Diagnostic Errors
• ED Management: Patient Safety Report on Diagnostic Errors Is Relevant for EDs
• Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety: Leapfrog Group will measure hospitals on diagnostic performance in 2024
• Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine: To motivate and help hospitals improve diagnosis, Leapfrog to pilot-test 29 recommended practices
• The Leapfrog Group: Preventing Patient Harm and Death from Diagnostic Errors: New Leapfrog Report Identifies 29 Recommended Practices that Hospitals Should Implement Now
• Modern Healthcare: Leapfrog to hospitals: here's how to reduce your diagnostic errors 
• Patient Engagement HIT: Better Patient-Provider Communication Key for Diagnostic Patient Safety
• HealthLeaders: Leapfrog Makes Recommendations to Reduce Diagnostic Errors at Hospitals
• Becker’s Hospital Review: New Leapfrog report recommends 29 measures to prevent diagnostic errors
• Radiology Today: Watchdog urges hospitals to determinedly strive for ‘excellence in diagnosis,’ suggests 29 ways to proceed
• ED Management: Noncompliance with Sepsis Measures Used to Prove Care Was Negligent
• ED Management: Initiative Focuses on Patient Harm Caused by Diagnostic Errors
• Modern Healthcare: Leapfrog Group Forms Diagnostic Errors Initiative
• Becker’s Hospital Review: Leapfrog Launches National Effort to Prevent Diagnostic Errors
• Radiology Business: Patient Safety Watchdog Leapfrog Group Launches National Initiative Targeting Diagnostic Errors,

 

Speaking Engagements 

Learn more about Recognizing Excellence in Diagnosis at these events:

• SIDM2023: The Future of Diagnosis: Achieving Excellence and Equity, the 16th Annual Conference of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, October 8-11