The data of diagnostic error: big, large and small

Gurpreet Dhaliwal^{1

2}, Kaveh G Shojania³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Medical Service, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ Department of Medicine and Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Gurpreet Dhaliwal et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 Jul.

. 2018 Jul;27(7):499-501.

doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2018-007917. Epub 2018 Mar 5.

Gurpreet Dhaliwal^{1

2}, Kaveh G Shojania³

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Medical Service, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ Department of Medicine and Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: GD reports receiving honoraria from ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company and Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers.

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