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Physicians more likely to disclose apparent medical errors
Physician Practice Advisor, August 16, 2006
Researchers found the following results:
- 63% would not provide specific information about preventing future errors
- 56% chose statements that mentioned the adverse event but not the error
- 42% would explicitly state that an error occurred
- 19% would not volunteer any information about the error's cause
- 58% of medical specialists explicitly mentioned the error, compared with 19% of surgical specialists
Click here to read the abstract for the Archives of Internal Medicine study.
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