This systematic review identifies the factors that both support and deter patients from being
willing and able to participate actively in reducing clinical errors. Specifically, we add to our …

Purpose Adverse events are increasingly recognized as a source of harm to patients. When
such harm occurs, problems arise in communicating the situation to patients and their …

Background This chapter examines reporting of health care errors (eg, verbal, written, or
other form of communication and/or recording of near miss and patient safety events that …

Background The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) first Quality Chasm report, To Err Is Human:
Building a Safer Health System, 1 stated that medication-related errors (a subset of medical …

Errors are inherent in medicine due to the imperfectness of human nature. Health care
providers may have a difficult time accepting their fallibility, acknowledging mistakes, and …

Background Patients have been shown to report accurate observations of medical errors
and adverse events. Various methods of introducing patient reporting into patient safety …

There is consensus that physicians, health professionals and health care organizations
should discuss harm that results from health care delivery (adverse events), including the …

Purpose To summarize the knowledge about the aftermath of adverse events (AEs) and
develop a recommendation set to reduce their negative impact in patients, health …

Objectives There is a growing expectation in health systems around the world that patients
will be fully informed when adverse events occur. However, current disclosure practices …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Although patients suffer the effects of medical errors and
iatrogenic injuries, little is known about their ability to recognize these events in ambulatory …