@article{88e9a96913a142da912b2a28ff9279ea,
title = "Multidisciplinary perspectives on the regulation of diagnostic technologies",
author = "Stuart Hogarth and Miller, {Fiona A.} and Steve Sturdy",
note = "Funding Information: Much of this special issue focuses on genomics, reflecting a general bias in STS scholarship towards emergent science and technology, to the exclusion of both mundane technologies and the social and political arrangements that condition their effects. Yet whether in the promissory space of novel genomic diagnostics or the quotidian world of everyday diagnostic practice, there is growing attention to issues of governance. As quality improvement and patient safety have moved up the agenda for healthcare systems, greater attention is now being paid to diagnostic errors as a cause of clinical harm and wasted expenditure. A recent report from the National Academies of Science ( NAS, 2015 ) suggested that in the USA diagnostic errors are implicated in approximately 10 percent of patient deaths, and 6 to 17 percent of hospital adverse events. Another driver of attention to diagnosis is the growing body of scholarship organized around the concept of overdiagnosis. This is more than just a research agenda. Supported by the British Medical Journal, an international movement has taken institutional form through the annual international “Preventing Overdiagnosis” conference series which has been running since 2013. ",
year = "2022",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115059",
language = "English",
volume = "304",
journal = "Social Science and Medicine",
issn = "0277-9536",
publisher = "Pergamon Press",
}