Brief Addresses How AHRQ's Survey Tools Guide a Health System in Brazil in Improving Diagnostic Safety Culture

A new case study brief describes how a tertiary care health system in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein, adapted AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® Diagnostic Safety Supplemental Item Set to inform the development and implementation of a diagnostic excellence program. 

The survey-based assessment of physician perspectives helped target improvement actions and the implementation of multidisciplinary teamwork principles to enhance diagnostic accuracy and patient safety. 

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