Medical Error Ethics

Disclosure of medical errors: physicians ... - BMC …

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While some studies showed no significant gender differences regarding medical error disclosure, reporting was affected by years of experience, and physicians with more years of experience were more likely to report medical errors …

Ethics: Ethical Issues with Medical Errors: Shaping a …

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Error Reporting and Disclosure - Patient Safety and …

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Reporting errors is fundamental to error prevention. The focus on medical errors that followed the release of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report To Err Is Human: Building …

Taking the blame: appropriate responses to medical error

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First, following the Institute of Medicine, error can be known as the ‘failure of a planned action to be completed as intended…or the use of a wrong plan to …

The Best Response to Medical Errors? Transparency

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Then, a milestone 2000 Institute of Medicine report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, called medical errors a major …

Medical errors: legal and ethical responses - PubMed

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Errors can be classified as skill-based, rule-based, knowledge-based and other errors, such as of judgment. In law, a key distinction is between negligent and non-negligent …

Ethical Dilemmas With Disclosing Medical Errors

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Ethical Dilemmas With Disclosing Medical Errors Allegation. Case File. An ophthalmologist scheduled corrective surgery for a nine-year-old female patient who …

Patient Safety and Medical Error: A Constant Focus in …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/patient-safety-and-medical-error-constant-focus-medical-ethics/2004-03

Patient Safety and Medical Error: A Constant Focus in Medical Ethics Erin Egan, MD, JD Citation PDF Altmetric It is not expected that medicine can cure everyone; it might be expected that it makes no one worse than he …

Medication errors: ethical implications - PubMed

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Although many types of errors can and do occur in the health care setting, this article focuses on a discussion of medication errors and related ethical implications. Several …

Medical Error: Some Ethical Concerns - Catholic Health …

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KEVIN O'ROURKE, OP, JCD. Fr. O'Rourke is professor of bioethics, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago. In the past few years, medical error has surfaced as …