Advisory promotes closed-loop communication of test results
In an effort to reduce diagnostic errors, the Joint Commission and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) have a Quick Safety : Advancing safety with closed-loop communication of test results. The commission defines closed-loop communication as 鈥渁 strategic, evidence-based solution that requires every test result to be sent, received, acknowledged and acted upon without failure.鈥 An one in 20 patients, or 12 million U.S. adults annually, are subject to a diagnostic error. (The Joint Commission , 12/17/19)