Objectives Making a medical error can have serious implications for clinician well-being,
affecting the quality and safety of patient care. Despite an advancing literature base, cross …

Background: Human errors occur everywhere, including in health care. Not only the patient,
but also the involved health professional is affected (ie, the “second victim”). Objectives: To …

Patient safety is an activity to mitigate preventable patient harm that may occur during the
delivery of medical care. The European Board of Anaesthesiology (EBA)/European Union of …

We tend to blame and forget those professionals who cause incidents and accidents, but
they are victims too. They are second victims whose experiences of an incident or adverse …

Objective To examine individual, situational and organisational aspects that influence
psychological impact and recovery of a patient safety incident on physicians, nurses and …

We carried out a cross-sectional online survey of fellows and members of the Royal College
of Physicians to establish physicians' experiences of adverse patient safety events and near …

Background Adverse events (AE) are also the cause of suffering in health professionals
involved. This study was designed to identify and analyse organization-level strategies …

In September 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report titled “Improving
Diagnosis in Health Care,” in which it was recommended that “health care organizations …

Surgeons work hard, work long hours, deal regularly with ''life and death''situations with their
patients, and make substantial personal sacrifices to practice in their chosen field. These …

Purpose Confronting medical error openly is critical to organizational learning, but less is
known about what helps individual clinicians learn and adapt positively after making a …