Diagnostic error is a leading cause of malpractice claims and payments. It is common and can have a devastating effect on patients and families – but despite this not all doctors feel safe to talk about it. In the first of the Headliner series on diagnostic safety we hear from Associate Professor Carmel Crock on what it takes to accept and improve diagnostic safety.

FURTHER LEARNING

Safer Dx Checklist.
https://protection.pub/saferdxchecklist.

Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Change Package: Society to Improve Diagnosis (SIDM).
https://protection.pub/SIDMchangepack

CERTIFICATE

A certificate for listening is available on PRISM.
https://protection.pub/headliners3

SPEAKERS

Your host today was Dr Stephen Priestley.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-priestley-854389246/.

Our guest speaker today was Dr Carmel Crock.
linkedin.com/in/carmel-crock-0661885a


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