The Effect of Structured Reflection on Nurse Practitioner Students ’ Diagnostic Reasoning Within Simulation: Qualitative Outcomes of a Mixed Methods Experiment

Over the past decade, the scope and prevalence of diagnostic errors have come to light. The reported error rate is 5%-30%, with higher prevalence in practice areas where the symptoms are still evolving at the time of the patient's initial presentation (Newman-Toker  et al., 2020; Singh, Meyer,& Thomas, 2014). Improving Diagnosis in Health Care (National  Academy of Medicine [NAM], 2015) defines diagnostic error as “the failure to (a) establish an accurate and timely explanation of the patient's health problem(s) or (b) communicate that explanation to the patient” (p.
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