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03/24/26

Tools to engage patients and family members in diagnostic safety: we see the trees, but what about the forest?

Samost-Williams, Aubrey; Bell, Sigall K; Thomas, Eric J. BMJ Qual Saf.

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Summary

Patient and family engagement (PFE) interventions help include patients and care partners in diagnosis, aligning goals to prevent errors and improve safety. This commentary about a recent systematic review of PFE discusses challenges in choosing appropriate PFE tools among many options and proposes a framework for teamwork-based shared mental models to guide the design, selection, and evaluation of PFE interventions.

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Samost-Williams A, Bell SK, Thomas EJ. Tools to engage patients and family members in diagnostic safety: we see the trees, but what about the forest? BMJ Qual Saf. 2026;35(8):513-516.