On the First Thursday of every month at 11:30 EST ADHCE provides a networking opportunity to members and interested guests. The monthly meeting includes presentations around current topics of interest, advocacy, and announcements for upcoming events. You can also learn more about the organization and the wonderful work of its members. Students are welcomed.
TITLE: NIH GRANT “End Diagnostic Overshadowing Program” - Addressing Disability Health Care Inequity
PRESENTER: Sarah Ailey PHD, RN, CDDN, FAAN, Past President of ADHCE.org, currently RUSH University Professor; Department of Community, Systems and Mental Health Nursing, was recently named PI of an awarded R01 grant, End Diagnostic Overshadowing: Addressing Ableism in the Healthcare Context program. Granted by: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. Core partners are the Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing at St. John Fisher University and the University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration.
Summary of Presentation:
As a result of ableism, people with disabilities experience diagnostic overshadowing, where symptoms are attributed to their disability rather than a potentially new or comorbid condition, leading to diagnostic errors.
Dr. Ailey will briefly review the literature that inspired this work and further enumerate the inequity of diagnostic overshadowing. This lecture will address the “End Diagnostic Overshadowing” program and discuss the methods by which the program aims to identify and understand the mechanisms underlying diagnostic overshadowing.
Further included are discussions of the program’s goal is to develop methods to reduce it. This includes creating algorithms to identify people with disabilities at risk of diagnostic overshadowing or diagnostic errors and targeted education programs and decision supports for healthcare professionals. If successful, the program will have developed mechanisms to reduce diagnostic overshadowing and diagnostic errors among people with disabilities.
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