Conferences

10–14 November 2012, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA
5th International Conference on Diagnostic Error in Medicine (DEM)—2012

The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are pleased to announce the 5th international conference on DIAGNOSTIC ERROR IN MEDICINE (DEM)—2012. The pre-conference day on Sunday, November 11, 2012 will provide four half day Short Courses and a half day Research Summit in the afternoon. The full three day DEM conference will be held November 12–14, 2012. All will be held on the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore Medical Campus.

We hope to build on the past successful meetings by continuing the discussion of diagnostic errors and expanding the constituency of advocates, academicians, healthcare providers, payers, policy and risk managers and patients dedicated to addressing this key problem.

Purpose and Scope

The ultimate goal of this conference is to improve patient safety by reducing the likelihood of diagnostic error in medicine. Minimizing diagnostic error is an essential component of safe patient care, and towards this end the conference activities are organized to summarize the current state of the field, review active research, and consider emerging educational and research themes that should be implemented to minimize diagnostic error.

http://www.smdm.org/diagnostic_errors.shtml

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