title: Quality and Safety in Health Care, Part XIII: Detecting and Analyzing Diagnostic Errors.
abstract: There are many ways to help determine the incidence of errors in diagnosis including reviewing autopsy data, health insurance and malpractice claims, patient health records, and surveys of doctors and patients. However, all of these methods have positive and negative points. There are also a variety of ways to analyze diagnostic errors and many recommendations about how to decrease the frequency of errors in diagnosis. Overdiagnosis is an important quality and safety issue but is not considered an error.
authors.affiliation: From the Advanced Radiology Services and the Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, College of Human Services, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
authors.forename: Jay A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Harolds
mesh_terms: D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D007345:Insurance Claim Review; D008318:Malpractice; D000069342:Medical Overuse; D008499:Medical Records; D061214:Patient Safety; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires