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Journal of General Internal Medicine
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 12/2020

01-12-2020 | Editorial

Finding Out Your Doctor Made a Mistake

Author: Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, CM

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 12/2020

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Medical errors have become more common as care has become complex. Clinical pathological conferences involving review of autopsy findings, chart reviews and medical audits are older methods of identifying errors in retrospect1. More recently, quality improvement rounds including multidisciplinary perspectives1 and electronic clinical decision support systems have been used to identify and prevent error prospectively. …
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Title
Finding Out Your Doctor Made a Mistake
Author
Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, CM
Publication date
01-12-2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 12/2020
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06228-9

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