The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) played a pivotal role in elevating diagnostic error from an overlooked aspect of patient safety to a recognized healthcare priority during its thirteen-year history (2011–2024). Through strategic advocacy, coalition building, and engagement with policymakers, SIDM secured dedicated federal funding for diagnostic safety research and promoted diagnostic excellence as a critical healthcare imperative. This article examines the organization’s establishment, evolution and lasting impact on the field of diagnostic safety across research, education, practice improvement, and patient engagement. A crowning achievement was SIDM’s success in stimulating the Institute of Medicine to study the problem, resulting in the landmark 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care (1). Despite the transformative impact of this report, substantial challenges remain in reducing harm from diagnostic error. We conclude with a call to address gaps in three critical areas: awareness, measurement, and implementation.
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Diagnosis
Official Journal of The Community Improving Diagnosis in Medicine
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Editors-in-Chief:
Mark L. Graber
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Englisch
Erstveröffentlichung:
22. Januar 2014
Erscheinungsweise:
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Objective
Diagnosis focuses on how diagnosis can be advanced, how it is taught, and how and why it can fail, leading to diagnostic errors. The journal welcomes both fundamental and applied works, improvement initiatives, opinions, and debates to encourage new thinking on improving this critical aspect of healthcare quality.
Diagnosis is a hybrid online only journal that is published quarterly. All contributions submitted for publication in Diagnosis are subject to single-anonymized peer review by at least two experts in the field, selected and invited by the Editor-in-Chief and a dedicated Editorial Team. Diagnosis only publishes articles in English.
Diagnosis is the official journal of The Community Improving Diagnosis in Medicine (CIDM).
Topics
Factors that promote diagnostic quality and safety // Clinical reasoning // Diagnostic errors in medicine // The factors that contribute to diagnostic error: human factors, cognitive issues, and system-related breakdowns // Improving the value of diagnosis – eliminating waste and unnecessary testing // How culture and removing blame promote awareness of diagnostic errors // Training and education related to clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills // Advances in laboratory testing and imaging that improve diagnostic capability // Local, national and international initiatives to reduce diagnostic error
Article formats
Original Article // Review (systematic, narrative, and focused reviews) // Opinion Paper // Point/Counterpoint // Editorial // Short Communication (reports of early research results and pilot studies) // Letter to the Editor // Guidelines and Recommendations // Case Report – Learning from Tragedy (case reports of diagnostic error or dilemma discussed from a multi-stakeholder perspective) // Case Report – Lessons in Clinical Reasoning (Pitfalls, Myths, and Pearls) // Patient-Focused Articles (papers in this category should be written in lay language on a topic of interest to the patient stakeholder community)
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Heft 1Special issue: The Future of Diagnosis; Issue Editors: Mark Graber, Ava L. Liberman, Andrew Olson, Andrew S. Parsons, Verity Schaye
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Heft 4Special Issue: COVID-19: The Diagnostic Challenge
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Heft 3Special issue: Situativity: A Family of Social Cognitive Theories for Clinical Reasoning and Error; Issue Editors: Steven Durning, Eric Holmboe, Mark L. Graber
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| Journal Impact Factor | 2.0 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| 5-year Journal Impact Factor | 2.4 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| Journal Citation Indicator | 0.60 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| CiteScore | 4.7 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.642 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.866 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
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Co-Editors
- Mark L. Graber, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), Plymouth, MA
- Mario Plebani, University Hospital, Padova, Italy
Associate Editors
- Christina L. Cifra, Boston Children's Hospital, MA
- Giuseppe Lippi, University Hospital of Verona, Verona, Italy
- Andrew Olson, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
- Satid Thammasitboon, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
- Dario Torre, Primary Uniformed Services, University of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
Section Editors – Case Reports
- Andrew Parsons, University of Virginia, Charlottesviille, VA
- Melissa Plesac, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Verity Schaye, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Editorial Board
- Daniela Basso, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy
- Carmel Crock, Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Australia
- Pat Croskerry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- Gurpreet Dhaliwal, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
- John Ely, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
- Evangelos Giannitsis, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Michael Laposata, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
- Yoryos Lyratzopolous, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Jason Maude, Isabel Healthcare, Surrey, United Kingdom
- David Newman-Toker, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Joseph J. Rencic, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Taro Shimizu, Dokkyo Medical University Graduate School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan
- Geeta Singhal, Baylor College of Medicine, Pediatrics, Houston, TX
- Dean F. Sittig, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
- Alexander von Meyer, Weiden, Germany
- Laura Zwaan, Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam (iMERR), Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Heike Jahnke
De Gruyter Brill
Berlin, Germany
E-mail: diagnosis.editorial@degruyter.com
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Erstveröffentlichung:
22. Januar 2014
Erscheinungsweise:
4 Hefte pro Jahr
eISSN:
2194-802X
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