Project PI Dr. Sarah Ailey, Ph.D, RN, FAAN, CNE, PHNA-BC from Rush University College of Nursing was awarded an R01 grant for the End Diagnostic Overshadowing: Addressing Ableism in the Healthcare Context program. The grant is from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. Core partners are IDD Health Equity consortium members Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing at St. John Fisher University and the University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration.
Project Overview: Diagnostic Overshadowing
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. The End Diagnostic Overshadowing program aims to identify and understand the mechanisms underlying diagnostic overshadowing and 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.
NIH Grant Support Acknowledgement
The research reported above is supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under award number 1R01HD116320-01. The content is solely the authors’ responsibility and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.