Medical students reluctant to report possible medical errors
Residency Program Insider, October 21, 2016
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
A study recently published in the American Journal of Medical Quality found that medical students are hesitant to speak up when they see possible adverse events. The study’s authors surveyed physician trainees at Wright State University's Boonshoft School of Medicine, in Dayton, Ohio, and found that 90% said they had observed adverse events and 29% had perceived avoidable adverse events on a monthly basis. Despite this, only half of the medical students surveyed said they were comfortable reporting these incidents to their superiors. Only 20% of respondents said they saw changes in response to concerns they had voiced.
Source: HealthLeaders Media
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
Related Products
-
Residency Program Alert
Residency program managers in all specialties are challenged to effectively manage their programs as accrediting agencies...
-
Residency Program Insider
Residency Program Connection is devoted to bringing residency directors and coordinators expert advice, best practice...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Tip: Consider the pros and cons of intrusion detection systems
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Steps for maintaining patient privacy
- Poor documentation: The consequences
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- New malnutrition criteria could help ensure consistent coding
- The five key elements of a good orientation program
- Neurological checks for head injuries
- E-mailed
- Searched