Impact of a Web-based diagnosis reminder system on errors of diagnosis.
A large number of medical errors can be attributed to errors in diagnosis. A diagnosis reminder system such as Isabel may lessen the risk of diagnostic error by providing a checklist of possible diagnoses. For this project, resident physicians used Isabel to work through a set of six simulated patient cases. The system had a positive effect on the mean diagnostic quality score and the number of clinically important diagnoses included in the differential.
Amy
Larissa R
LR
Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Borowitz
Stephen M
SM
Brown
Patrick A
PA
Mendelsohn
Mark J
MJ
Lyman
Jason A
JA
D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010372:Pediatrics; D017010:Reminder Systems