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Researchers Investigate Patient Perception of Dental Diagnostic Errors and Strategies to Reduce Occurrences
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Why it matters for dental
Dental practices face malpractice and patient-retention risk when diagnostic errors occur; understanding how patients perceive these errors can help owners and clinicians reduce adverse events and improve informed-consent protocols.
Key points
- The source estimates that 24 % of patients who experienced a dental diagnostic error suffered an adverse event.
- Today's RDH reports on an ongoing research effort to study patient perceptions and identify strategies to reduce diagnostic errors.
- Findings are relevant to practice owners, associates, and specialists who routinely perform radiographic interpretation, caries diagnosis, and oral-pathology assessments.
- Staff and front-desk teams may need to adjust communication and documentation workflows if new error-reduction tactics emerge from the study.
Who should care
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