Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Addresses IOM Committee on Diagnostic Error

ST. JAMES, N.Y., April 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), a non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce diagnostic error, today addressed the first meeting of a new Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee studying the problem. The IOM committee will examine a spectrum of issues, including definitions, epidemiology, the burden of harm and costs, and will develop recommendations to reduce diagnostic error.

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