Improving diagnosis in health care / Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care ; Erin P. Balogh, Bryan T. Miller, and John R. Ball, editors ; Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2015]

xxvii, 444 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

The diagnostic process -- Overview of diagnostic error in health care -- Diagnostic team members & tasks : improving patient engagement and health care -- Technology and tools in the diagnostic process -- Organizational characteristics, the physical environment, and the diagnostic process : improving learning, culture, and the work system -- The external environment influencing diagnosis : reporting, medical liability, and payment -- A research agenda for the diagnostic process and diagnostic error -- The path to improve diagnosis and reduce diagnostic error.