Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action

Despite the enormous financial cost and patient harm resulting from diagnostic error, many leaders have not addressed this growing patient safety problem.³² Healthcare leaders must create a climate that helps diverse, dynamic, sometimes geographically dispersed diagnostic teams to provide accurate, timely, and fully communicated diagnoses. Leaders with a growth mindset take on challenges, persist through obstacles, learn from criticism, and seek inspiration in others’ success. This is no small challenge in the face of competing priorities, but now is the time to begin the journey.