An organizational self-assessment tool with 10 recommended practices to achieve diagnostic excellence, based on the work of Dr. Hardeep Singh and colleagues.
Diagnostic Excellence Dashboard
Full Implementation
0/10
Partial Implementation
0/10
Not Implemented
10/10
Maturity Level
Beginning
10 High-Priority Practices
Practice 1: Health care organization leadership builds a "board-to-bedside" accountability framework that includes structure, capacity, transparency, time, and resources to measure and improve diagnostic safety.
Practice 2: Health care organization promotes a just culture and creates a psychologically safe environment that encourages clinicians and staff to share opportunities to improve diagnostic safety without fear of retribution.
Practice 3: Health care organization creates feedback loops to increase information flow about patients' diagnostic and treatment-related outcomes. These loops, which include clinicians and external organizations, establish mechanisms for capturing, measuring, and providing feedback to the diagnostic team about patients' subsequent diagnoses and clinical outcomes.
Practice 4: Health care organization includes multidisciplinary perspectives to understand and address contributory factors in analysis of diagnostic safety events. These perspectives include human factors, informatics, IT system design, and cognitive elements.
Practice 5: Health care organization actively seeks patient and family feedback to identify and understand diagnostic safety concerns and addresses concerns by codesigning solutions.
Assessment Results & Roadmap
Beginning Level (0/10 Full Practices)
Priority: Foundation Building
Your organization is in the early stages. Focus on establishing leadership commitment, promoting a just culture, and implementing basic high-impact patient safety practices like communication standards and test result follow-up.