Lost Opportunities: How Physicians Communicate About Medical Errors
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Lost opportunities: how physicians communicate about medical errors.
Although physicians have been described as "reluctant partners" in reporting medical errors, this survey of 1,082 U.S. physicians found that most were willing to share their knowledge about harmful errors and near misses with their institutions and wanted to hear about innovations to prevent common errors. However, physicians found current systems to report and disseminate this information inad...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Health Affairs
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0278-2715,1544-5208
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.1.246