BACKGROUND A gap exists between patients' desire to be told about medical errors and present practice. Little is known about how physicians approach disclosure. The objective of the present study was to describe how physicians disclose errors to patients. METHODS Mailed survey of 2637 medical and surgical physicians in the United States (Missouri and Washington) and Canada (national sample). ...

BACKGROUND Various authorities and national organizations encourage disclosing medical errors, but there is little information on how patients respond to disclosure. OBJECTIVE To examine how the type of error, severity of adverse clinical outcome, and level of disclosure affect patients' responses to error and disclosure. DESIGN Mail questionnaire survey (8 versions were developed) varying ...

This chapter examines reporting of health care errors (e.g., verbal, written, or other form of communication and/or recording of near miss and patient safety events that generally involves some form of reporting system) and these events’ disclosure (e.g., communication of errors to patients and their families), including the ethical aspects of error-reporting mechanisms. The potential benefits ...

A protocol is introduced to show knowledge of a codeword of Goppa code and Goppa polynomial. Protocol does not disclosure any useful information about the codeword and polynomial coefficients. A related protocol is introduced to show Hamming weight of an error is below a threshold. Protocol does not disclosure codeword and weight of the error. Verifier only uses commitments to codeword componen...

Statistical agencies release microdata to researchers after applying statistical disclosure control (SDC) methods. Noise addition is a perturbative SDC method which is carried out by adding independent random noise to a continuous variable or by misclassifying values of a categorical variable according to a probability mechanism. Because these errors are purposely introduced into the data by th...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to identify healthcare providers' obligation towards medical errors disclosure as well as to study the association between the severity of the medical error and the intention to disclose the error to the patients and their families. DESIGN A cross-sectional study design was followed to identify the magnitude of disclosure among healthcare providers in different depar...

self-disclosure, as communication of information about one's affects, behaviors, and cognitions, has been emphasized as one of the central issues of the psychotherapeutic process. verbal and nonverbal aspects of disclosure are important factors of psychotherapeutic communication, both for therapist and patient. this paper presents an account of the development and reliability of an observationa...

Objectives. To conduct a prospective evaluation for effectiveness of an error disclosure assessment tool and video recordings to enhance student learning and metacognitive skills while assessing the IPEC competencies. Design. The instruments for assessing performance (planning, communication, process, and team dynamics) in interprofessional error disclosure were developed. Student self-assessme...