IRQN award article: labeling defects in radiology.
The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on medical errors in the American health care system, To Err Is Human, and the follow-up report in 2001, Crossing the Quality Chasm, have focused the public eye on improving quality in medicine. Governmental agencies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have mandated the development of metrics to measure the quality of care. The Sun Valley Group is an informal assembly of individuals interested in improving quality in radiology. One of the initiatives that arose from the initial meeting of that group was to pilot programs in quality metric measurement. One of these programs was to focus on a safety initiative on correct image labeling. This is the report of that pilot project.
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Department of Radiology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
D003951:Diagnostic Errors / Q000145:classification* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011871:Radiology / Q000379:methods*