Erschienen in:
01.08.2014 | Editorial
Were My Diagnosis and Treatment Correct? No News is Not Necessarily Good News
verfasst von:
Hardeep Singh, MD MPH, Dean F. Sittig, PhD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 8/2014
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Excerpt
In a recent report, the American Medical Association (AMA) concluded, “we still know very little about patient safety in the ambulatory setting, and next to nothing about how to improve it.”
1 Research on patient safety has highlighted the prevalence of poor follow-up after patient–provider encounters. Suboptimal follow-up may be associated with adverse events and poor patient outcomes.
2 – 5 Ensuring timely patient follow-up is essential when a diagnosis or treatment plan is uncertain, or when there is a specific need to closely monitor a patient’s condition. Additionally, when the initial diagnosis is incorrect or initial management misguided, prompt follow-up is often the only way the error can be recognized and corrected.
2 – 4 , 6 Despite the importance of close follow-up, much remains to be done to improve the process of outpatient follow-up care. …
