Mortality and morbidity rounds (MMR) in pathology: relative contribution of cognitive bias vs. systems failures to diagnostic error.
Eichbaum Q, Adkins B, Craig-Owens L, et al. Mortality and morbidity rounds (MMR) in pathology: relative contribution of cognitive bias vs. systems failures to diagnostic error. Diagnosis (Berl). 2019;6(3):249-257. doi:10.1515/dx-2018-0089.
Morbidity and mortality (M&M) conferences were traditionally promoted as a strategy to learn from adverse events. Researchers conducted a retrospective review of 49 M&M rounds cases in the pathology department of a single medical center and found that 36% of cases likely involved errors related to cognitive bias.
Eichbaum Q, Adkins B, Craig-Owens L, et al. Mortality and morbidity rounds (MMR) in pathology: relative contribution of cognitive bias vs. systems failures to diagnostic error. Diagnosis (Berl). 2019;6(3):249-257. doi:10.1515/dx-2018-0089.