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Stanford University\u2019s Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) has done a great service to the field by convening an expert panel to provide consensus recommendations on economically-beneficial interventions that would have the greatest clinical impact. The CERC report identified these 3 areas as the top priorities: 1\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Optimizing patient navigation and care coordination; 2\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Providing clinicians with decision support resources; and 3\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Creating diagnostic \u2018safety nets\u2019 to close the loop on abnormal, critical test results. Although the CERC recommendations represent state-of-the-art, authoritative advice, we believe there are 3 other interventions that have comparable financial and clinical impact profiles: 1\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finding and learning from diagnostic errors; 2\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Improving clinical reasoning; and 3\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Promoting patient engagement. Healthcare organizations have an obligation to begin improving diagnostic safety and quality, and both the CERC recommendations and our own represent excellent options that should be considered for immediate adoption.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1515\/dx-2026-0147","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,18]],"date-time":"2026-08-18T15:17:26Z","timestamp":1787066246000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Improving diagnostic safety\u00a0\u2013\u00a0where should healthcare organizations start? CERC suggestions and our own"],"prefix":"10.1515","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7226-5783","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrew P. 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