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Patient-Partnered 
Diagnostic Center of Excellence

The Patient-Partnered Diagnostic Center of Excellence (The Center) was established in October 2022 with a grant from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

News & Research

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September 23rd, 2024

University of Toronto and Michael Garron Hospital researchers celebrate World Patient Safety Day. The event focused on raising awareness about the role of communication, shared decision-making, and patient involvement in improving safety and healthcare outcomes.

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World Health Organization

Check out the World Health Organization's website for everything you need to know about World Patient Safety Day 2024! This year's theme is Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety. 

DIAGNOSTIC SAFETY

Our team is working to identify and prevent diagnostic errors in all settings and for every patient. 

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PATIENT PARTNERSHIP

Patients, doctors, nurses, research scientists, and other experts in diagnostic safety are partnering together to meet this goal.

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COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE

We are committed to co-creating solutions to address the needs of patients to improve diagnostic safety.

Patient-Partnered Research in
Diagnostic Safety

    The goal of the Center is to build partnerships to improve diagnosis and diagnostic safety, with a focus on identifying and preventing errors (Safety I) and finding solutions to build resilience for safer care (Safety 2).  Our research is "patient-partnered," meaning that we are working with patients every step of the way, from co-developing research questions to co-designing solutions to the problems that are most important to them. Patient voices are included in everything we do.

 

    With help from our patient co-investigator, Patient Advisory Committee, and potentially patients like yourself, the Center will co-develop solutions for diagnostic safety improvement in four areas:

Using information reported by patients to identify and learn from diagnostic safety events when they happen. 

 

Developing a patient-centered taxonomy to classify and describe diagnostic safety issues from the patient perspective, paying special attention to the needs of marginalized patients.

 

Creating resources and strategies to improve how patients and providers communicate about diagnosis. 

 

Crafting policies and guidelines around how to equitably engage patients in efforts to improve diagnostic safety.

Our investigators, patient partners, and advisors are affiliated with the following institutions

MedStar Health Research Institute logo.
Georgetown Univesity logo.
MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare logo.
Baylor College of Medicine logo.
University of Toronto logo.
Michael Garron Hospital logo.
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