It is but shouldn’t be THIS hard.

I am often asked, as a patient, if I can do one thing to help improve #PatientSafety what should I do? My goto answer - #BePrepared for your visit. YOU are the expert on YOU! Engaging Patients To Improve Diagnostic Safety ahrq.gov/patient-safety… AHRQ #WPSD2023

For #WorldPatientSafetyDay, discover how we’re partnering with patients and colleagues to help reduce #DiagnosticError. Learn how we’re innovating from Kristen Miller. #PatientsFirst Patient-Partnered Diagnostic Center of Excellence bit.ly/3RrC1el

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We want to hear from you this #WorldPatientSafetyDay! Help us learn about your perspectives on patient engagement and diagnostic safety: patientpartnereddce.org/projects-8

Looking forward to officially kicking off the first day of #SIDM2023 with our workshop on partnering with patients on diagnostic safety - pairing equity and excellence! See you in Center Room B at 4pm! Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Helen Haskell @TDGiardina Kristen Miller

“I wasn’t being listened to. They didn’t believe I was in this much pain...” Powerful storytelling from Jake Tapper 🦅 and his daughter Alice about her #misdiagnosis experience. Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine

“As a journalist I was constantly taking notes on what was going on and sending updates to my family. We have a detailed account of what happened.” Imagine what would happen if we had detailed accounts of care from providers AND patients perspectives?! Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Jake Tapper 🦅

It's Day2 at #SIDM2023 starting with a story of a missed appendicitis Diagnosis. And again I'm reminded of what escalation programs can achieve. Implemented like REACH they can get a 2nd medical team & save lives cec.health.nsw.gov.au/keep-patients-… #thefutureofdiagnosis

This is (literally!) what #patientengagement looks like: awareness of endometriosis increased by the work of endometriosis patients and clinicians at ⁦Endometriosis Foundation of America (EndoFound)⁩ #SIDM2023

My friend and mentor Helen Haskell presenting on “The Big Three” when it comes to #patientengagement in #diagnosis Spoiler! #power #trust and #equity We need to address gaps in all of them to achieve #diagnosis excellence! #SIDM2023 Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine

It’s about #sepsis! Kristen Miller from Medical HumanFactors MedStar Health Research talking about their leading edge work on sepsis. Goal - #JustSaySepsis #diagnosis #CDS #humanfactors

Thank you!! Presenting to this group was a great experience- lots of engaging discussion with folks committed to partnering with patients in diagnostic safety 😁

Proud to present lots of patient oriented diagnostic safety research at #SIDM2023 this week! Do you think I’ll be the only one with hashtags in my poster? 🤔😂🤷‍♀️ Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Kelly Smith, PhD

The #BetheExpertOnYou toolkit on the main stage at #SIDM2023 Proud moment for AHRQ to highlight this work led my my team and our friends MedStar Health Research

Agreed - so proud to have been part of this incredible work to uplift the voices of patients for diagnostic safety!

The 2023 SIDM Award for Excellence in Patient and Family Engagement was presented on October 10 to Helen Haskell, President of Mothers Against Medical Error and Consumers Advancing Patient Safety. Congratulations!

We are MedStar Health Research proud of our Sr. Scientific Director Kristen Miller who is presenting at Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine on her AHRQ funded diagnostic center of excellence award. The team is focused on the patient in the diagnostic journey working closely with Helen Haskell & Kelly Smith, PhD.

This is awesome! I’m so proud to be part of the Patient Partnered Diagnostic Safety Center of Excellence, where our team is committed to creating solutions that work best for patients. Stay tuned for the next steps of this work ❤️ Thank you Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine #SIDM2023

NEW PAPER📢** Our Blood Cancer UK-funded study looked at how UK primary care physicians (GPs) address and communicate diagnostic uncertainty in practice doi.org/10.1186/s12875… 💡We made some recommendations for practice (see thread). ❓Why this is important: