Reducing Harm to Patients from Diagnostic Errors

描述(由申请人提供)：本次会议的最终目标是通过减少医学诊断错误的可能性来提高患者的安全性。我们将重点传播研究成果，并在减少诊断错误对患者的伤害方面制定研究和教育议程。诊断错误越来越多地被学术界、临床和非专业人士视为下游患者安全问题的严重贡献者。诊断差错及其解决方法涉及到AHRQ的许多优先事项，包括对门诊护理、医疗差错、患者安全和卫生信息技术的关注。我们的会议是首次将研究人员、临床医生和患者聚集在一起，专门关注这一主题。 这次会议将于2007年10月19日至20日在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡举行，紧接着医学决策学会年会，将允许两次会议的联合注册，并利用两次会议与会者的共同利益。 会议将涉及(1)对临床推理的各种方法的研究，(2)诊断错误在包括门诊、急诊室和医院在内的各种环境中的影响，以及减少这些错误的策略(3)使用技术来减少诊断错误(例如，临床决策支持、认知系统工程)，以及(4)该领域研究和教育面临的挑战。演讲者将是来自多个背景和视角的国内和国际公认的研究人员和执业医生，我们还提议成立一个由经历过诊断错误的患者组成的小组，以带来患者的观点。 会议策划委员会于2006年12月在佛罗里达州那不勒斯亲自召开会议，并从那时起一直通过电子方式进行交流。那不勒斯会议的成果已被《美国医学杂志》作为特别增刊接受。为了利用AHRQ的资金，将通过注册费、供应商、非营利组织和医疗决策学会的实物后勤支持提供额外的支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ultimate goal of this conference is to improve patient safety by reducing the likelihood of diagnostic error in medicine. We will focus on disseminating research results and developing a research and education agenda in the area of reducing harm to patients from diagnostic errors. Diagnostic errors are increasingly recognized as a serious contributor to downstream patient safety problems by the academic, clinical, and lay communities. Diagnostic errors and the means to address them relate to many of AHRQ's priorities, including the focus on ambulatory care, medical errors, patient safety, and health information technology. Our conference is the first to bring together researchers, clinicians and patients to focus specifically on this topic. This conference will be held on October 19-20, 2007 in Pittsburgh, PA, immediately prior to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, and will allow joint registration for the two meetings and capitalize on the common interests of attendees at both meetings. The conference sessions will cover (1) research on a variety of approaches to clinical reasoning, (2) the impact of diagnostic errors in a variety of settings including ambulatory, emergency rooms, and hospitals and strategies to reduce those errors (3) the use of technologies to reduce diagnostic errors (e.g. clinical decision support, cognitive systems engineering), and (4) challenges to research and education in this area. The speakers will be nationally and internationally recognized researchers and practicing physicians from multiple backgrounds and perspectives and we are also proposing a panel of patients who have experienced diagnostic errors to bring the patient's perspective as well. The conference planning committee convened in person in December, 2006 in Naples, FL and has been communicating electronically since that time. The outcome from the Naples meeting has been accepted as a special supplement in the American Journal of Medicine. To leverage AHRQ funding, additional support will be provided by registration fees, vendors, non-profit organizations and in-kind logistic support from the Society for Medical Decision Making.