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 …

OBJECTIVE: Medical errors are a nearly universal experience for physicians. An error that
harms a patient is one of the most difficult experiences that physicians face. Difficult …

OBJECTIVE: The aim was to examine the role of talking (or remaining silent) in the
physician's experience of coping with medical error. METHODS: Sixty-one physicians …

The emotional toll of medical error is high for both patients and clinicians, who are often
unsure with whom—and whether—they can discuss what happened. Although institutions …

Objectives: To describe how physicians think and feel about their perceived mistakes, to
examine how physicians' prior beliefs and manners of coping with mistakes may influence …

This article proposes that knowledge of cultural expectations concerning ethical responses
to unintentional harm can help students and physicians better to understand patients' …

Purpose Error is inevitable in medicine, given its inherent uncertainty and complexity. Errors
can teach powerful lessons; however, because of physicians' self-imposed silence and the …

Statistics show that nearly 98,000 patients die each year because of preventable medical
mistakes. Despite legal obligations, a majority of physicians either fail to disclose a mistake …

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While ascribing medical errors primarily to systems factors can free clinicians from individual
blame, there are elements of medical errors that can and should be attributed to individual …