Conference Overview


PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This is the second international conference dedicated specifically to diagnostic error in medicine, co-sponsored by the Society for Medical Decision Making. The ultimate goal of this meeting is to improve patient safety by reducing the likelihood of diagnostic error in medicine. Minimizing diagnostic error is an essential component of safe patient care, and towards this end the conference activities are organized to summarize the current state of the field, to review active research, and to consider emerging ideas on the education and research agenda that should be implemented to reduce diagnostic error.

FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D.
  • Distinguished Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston
  • Visiting Professor at Stanford University.
  • Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine
 KEYNOTE PANEL # 1
Clinical Reasoning - Lessons for the 21st Century

KEYNOTE # 2
Do We Know How To Teach Clinical Reasoning ?
Pat Croskerry, MD PhD
  • Dalhousie University,
    Nova Scotia, Canada
 Lessons from the Dual Process Model of Reasoning
Wolfgang Gaissmaier, PhD
  • Chief Research Scientist
    The Harding Center for Risk Literacy
    at the Max Planck Institute for
    Human Development
 Fast and Frugal Decisions - Can They Be Improved?

OBJECTIVES
The conference goal is to build a scientific and practical understanding of diagnostic error in medicine and foster the development of solutions by:

  • Focusing attention on the frequency, impact, and public health significance of medical misdiagnosis
  • Developing a core constituency of committed advocates from diverse backgrounds and perspectives
  • Discussing the nature, causes, and remedies for diagnostic error in medicine, and
  • Sharing research methods and results relevant to clinical reasoning, diagnostic error, and misdiagnosis-related harm

SESSION TOPICS AND THEMES

  • Approaches of leading healthcare organizations to reduce diagnostic error
  • Experience with decision-support products that focus on diagnosis
  • Overview of research in progress to reduce diagnostic error
  • Understanding the root causes of diagnostic error - Dissecting a case
  • Next steps in research - Developing a research agenda to reduce diagnostic error in emergency and critical care medicine, in primary and ambulatory care, and in perceptual fields (radiology)
  • Next steps in education - Developing a national consensus curriculum for clinical reasoning and error-prevention strategies

AUDIENCE
Practicing clinicians, cognition scientists, safety officers and risk managers, informatics professionals, clinical and basic investigators, educators, and trainees. Patients who have experienced diagnostic error who wish to contribute to a positive dialogue are especially welcome.

POSTER SESSION
We invite abstract submissions that address the epidemiology of diagnostic error, factors that predispose to diagnostic error, or strategies to reduce diagnostic error or improve detection. In addition, medical trainees are encouraged to submit case vignettes on diagnostic errors they have encountered. Abstracts submitted for the SMDM meeting may also be submitted for consideration for 'Diagnostic Errors in Medicine' and will be considered independently. The deadline for abstract \ vignette submission is Tuesday, July 15, 2009

For information and instructions on submitting an abstract or case vignette, CLICK HERE

REGISTRATION
Advance Registration: $175.00 USD
Regular Registration: $225.00 USD
On Site: $250.00 USD
SMDM Attendees: SMDM conference fees + $100.00 USD
Trainees: $100.00 USD

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