Precision in diagnosis – Safeguarding patient health - Businessamlive

Summary

The article discusses the critical nature of precise medical diagnosis for patient safety, outlining how medical errors, particularly diagnostic errors, stem from both systemic and cognitive factors. It emphasizes solutions such as transparency, interdisciplinary collaboration, cognitive bias training, and mental health support for healthcare professionals to mitigate these errors. This ties into the key concept of 'Medical Errors' and is tagged appropriately under patient safety, health care quality, and related fields.