Background: When patients experience unexpected events, some health professionals
become “second victims”. These care givers feel as though they have failed the patient …

After a life-threatening complication of an injection for neck pain several years ago, Ms W
experienced a wrong-site surgery to remove a squamous cell lesion from her nose, followed …

Background: In light of high levels of staff turnover and variability in the quality of health care,
much attention is currently being paid to the health care work environment and how it …

Communicating bad news is never easy and for physicians these interactions may be a
significant source of stress. To examine the characteristics that make delivering of bad news …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Disclosure of medical errors has been conceptualized as
occurring primarily in the physician-patient dyad. Yet, health care is delivered by …

This paper introduces expressive writing as a new tool to build psychological resilience in
nurses by helping them to reduce the negative impact of the primary sources of stress in …

: Background: Medical complaints affect a large number of the physicians. Apart from them
being a waste of time, money and energy, lawsuits can be source of great stress for the …

Objective: Existing measures of stress either focus on burnout or frustration and fatigue
factors, often referred to as job strain. The objectives of this study were to: establish a …

Estimations of preventable adverse events as a result of medical errors range from at least
44,000 to as many as 98,000 American deaths annually. Further, according to the National …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Patients experience adverse events more frequently than
the public appreciates. A number of health systems have led the movement toward open …