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...concluded that breakdowns occurred at multiple points in the diagnostic process, resulting in a missed or delayed diagnosis. In many missed diagnoses, two or more physicians contributed to the mistake. Co-author of the report and an Associate Professor of Law and Public Health at HSPH professor, David M. Studdert said that “cognitive errors play a large role” in these types of medical errors. The study also recommended ways to improve the diagnostic process, suggesting that systems reducing reliance on doctor’s memory, such as electronic test result tracking systems, be implemented. Studdert...
...team from SPH—consisting of Professor of Law and Public Health Troyen A. Brennan, Assistant Professors David M. Studdert and Assistant Professor Michelle M. Mello—collaborated with Robert Pozen ’68, Romney’s chief economic adviser, to construct the proposal, which has been in the works for several months...
...study, which Studdert has guided since 1999, also revealed that physicians in general, and non-physicians with yearly incomes above $150,000, were less likely to choose HMO care than non-physicians with lower incomes...
...don’t think that there is any clear policy direction from these results,” Studdert said...
Instead, the data produced will serve as a springboard for further research. “What we will be able to do with these results is design more focused studies to discover what physicians were averse to,” Studdert said...