Lewis Blackman Tragic Ending

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As a mother this story really touched me. The thought of being in Lewis Blackman mother’s place, watching my son suffer in pain with the unknown of what was truly wrong with him would have been excruciating. The quality improvement and safety issue that I have chosen to focus on in result of the Lewis Blackman tragic ending is Cognitive biases in health care, or what was discussed as premature closure in the video. Premature closure was explained in the video as “The failure to consider reasonable alternatives after an initial diagnoses has been reached, results in the correct diagnoses never being given serious consideration”. I would like to look further into articles that have been published on subjects related to documented

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