MAPS PSO Diagnostic Error Efforts

MAPS PSO supports research and collaboration on the impact of diagnostic errors on patient safety. In response, Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety PSO has joined the Society to Improve Diagnosis, Coalition to Improve Diagnosis. This group consists of more than 40 of the nation’s leading healthcare and patient advocacy organizations leading the effort to decrease diagnostic errors.

Who can benefit from diagnostic error collaboration at healthcare facilities? Surgeons, Physicians, Anesthesiologists, Perioperative nurses, Pharmacists, Nursing Champions, Infection Control, Laboratory, Radiologists, other patient safety leaders, patients and families.

We’re pledging to improve diagnostic accuracy as part of the ACT for Better Diagnosis™ initiative. The Coalition is working together to identify and spread practical steps that everyone—patients, clinicians, health systems, and others—can take to better ensure that the complex science of diagnosis is Accurate, Communicated, and Timely.

As a part of this initiative, MAPS has held webinars and provided resources to its members to discuss this complex issue. Read more...

Tell us what you are doing to improve diagnosis, tweet it out using #betterdiagnosis. To learn more about ACT for Better Diagnosis or how to get involved, visit www.BetterDiagnosis.org. Let's join forces to discuss diagnostic errors and become involved in this effort.

We are encouraging all healthcare providers to organize teams and take advantage of opportunities to identify diagnostic errors and collaborate on identifying missed opportunities. In the future, visit this web page to see updated information.

Diagnostic Error: How to Help Write a New Chapter in Patient Safety Webinar
Held: Monday, August 13, 2018
Complimentary to all MAPS PSO Members

Content Expert: Hardeep Singh, M.D., M.P.H.Chief, Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Director, Houston DISCovery (Diagnosis Improvement Safety Center) Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine. Bio
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Contact: Tammy De Leonardis at 630-276-5588 for being added to our MAPS PSO mailing list.

Contact: Carrie Pinasco, Director , Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety PSO at 630-276-5845 for information about MAPS PSO membership and events.