It is thought that about 1 in 10 diagnoses made by doctors is incorrect. The Institute of Medicine 2016 report, ‘Improving Diagnosis in Healthcare ‘, concludes that “It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences.”

Improving diagnosis is a patient safety imperative that requires a team effort. In this conference, researchers, clinicians, cognitive psychologists, medical educators and patients will come together to explore this rapidly expanding, often puzzling and exciting field of patient safety.

This conference will bring together world and local leaders in diagnostic error, the safety sciences, health IT, medical indemnity providers and clinicians passionate about making diagnosis more accurate, timely and safe. The patient voice will be a focus of attention. The language of diagnosis will be explored and the contribution that medical culture makes to diagnostic error (both in the positive and negative) will be examined.

Attendees will come away with the latest research and innovation in the field, as well as practical tools to use at the bedside and in clinical teaching to make diagnosis safer.

Conference Theme

Diagnosis is difficult. With the increasing complexity of medicine, teamwork is crucial.

The team includes the patient (and their family), nurses, doctors and allied health. Good relationships and communication between team members is vital to safer diagnosis for our patients.

Learning Objectives

�� Increase awareness of extent and importance of diagnostic error

�� Make diagnosis safer by identifying priorities in patient engagement, research, education and clinical care

�� Find solutions to diagnostic error through dialogue and interdisciplinary exchange at the conference

�� Explore the role of team work and culture in reducing diagnostic error

OVERVIEW

TOWARDS SAFER DIAGNOSIS – A TEAM EFFORT

PULLMAN ALBERT PARK MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

24 – 25 MAY 2017

Accommodation deadline:

Thursday 13 April 2017

Special conference rates have been negotiated with the hotels listed below and are only available when booked online during the registration period. Booking early is highly recommended.

Pullman Albert Park:

5 star / $230 per night

Mercure Albert Park:

4 star / $180 per night

More information is available on the conference website.

Mark Graber, MDSenior Fellow at RTI International and Professor Emeritus of Medicine, State University of New York; President, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, USA

Professor Julie Considine RN, PhD Professor of Nursing, Deakin University Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre, Australia

Professor Enrico Coiera Director, NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in e-health and the Foundation Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University, Australia

Maureen Williams Patient Advocate, Australia

Paul Epner MBA, MEd Executive Vice President and co-founder of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, Strategic planning consultant in healthcare; USA

Dr Anne Miller, PhD Information Officer, eHealth, University of Sydney, Office of the Chief Clinical Information Officer, Australia

Dr. Ranjana Srivastava Medical Oncologist, Educator, Award-Winning Writer, Columnist, The Guardian Newspaper, Australia

Associate Professor Amanda Walker Senior Clinical Advisor, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare , Australia

Robert Trowbridge, MDAssistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine and an adult hospitalist, Maine Medical Center, USA

Professor Simon Willcock MBBS (Hons 1), PhD, FRACGP, GAICD General Practitioner, Clinical Director of Primary Care at the Macquarie University Hospital, Australia

Karen Cosby MD, CPPS Associate Professor, Rush Medical School, Senior Emergency Medicine Physician, Cook County Hospital (Stroger), Chicago, USA

� Clinicians with an interest in diagnosis including Radiologists and Pathologists

� Medical Educators

� Researchers

� Nurses

� Patients

� Quality Managers

� Medical Administrators

� Medical Students

For the full listing of engaging speakers and their biographies, visit the conference website: www. improvediagnosis.org/AusDEM17

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Pullman Albert Park

65 Queens Rd, Albert Park, Victoria, Australia

For more information contact the Conference Secretariat:

info@ausdem2017.com

+61 2 8204 0770.

Key sessions will be held on: Language & Diagnosis, Identifying Diagnostic Traps in your Field, the Importance of Diagnostic Collaboration, National Standards, Patient Engagement, IT & Diagnostic Error, Role of the Nurse, Human Factors and the Consequences of Diagnostic Error, Case Presentations, Panel Discussions and Latest Research in Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Error.

The following pre-conference workshops are taking place on Tuesday 23 May 1.30pm - 5.00pm:

� Short Course: Introduction to diagnostic error

� Workshop 1: Addressing diagnostic error in the clinical setting

� Workshop 2: “They got it wrong!” How patients and health professionals can make a difference through collaboration to obtain a positive outcome

Register online at:

www.improvediagnosis.org/AusDEM17

Early bird deadline:

Sunday 19 March 2017

Registration Deadline:

Sunday 14 May 2017

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