11 medical societies, healthcare organizations that form the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis

To address diagnostic errors in medicine, 11 major medical societies and healthcare organizations have collaborated to form the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis.

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The coalition was established by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, a physician-led nonprofit organization whose members include clinicians and stakeholders across the diagnostic process.

“Physicians excel at diagnosis, but errors or delays in reaching the right diagnosis still create harm, and we can do better,” said Mark L. Graber, MD, president and founder of SIDM. According to Dr. Graber, SIDM’s purpose is to ensure that diagnosis is accurate, timely and efficient, and the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis will be “the catalyst for changes in practice needed to realize this vision.”

Listed below are the 11 member organizations that make up the coalition.

  1. ABIM Foundation
  2. American Association of Nurse Practitioners
  3. American Board of Internal Medicine
  4. American Board of Medical Specialties
  5. American College of Emergency Physicians
  6. American College of Physicians
  7. American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
  8. Consumers Advancing Patient Safety
  9. The Leapfrog Group
  10. National Patient Safety Foundation
  11. Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the CDC will support the Coalition and its members as government partners.

 

 

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