To Whom Medical Errors Should Be Reported

Error Reporting and Disclosure - Patient …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2652/

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/

Medical errors and near misses should be reported when they are discovered. Healthcare professionals are usually the …

Reporting Medical Errors to Improve …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/413721

As shown in Table 4, most physicians believed that reporting errors improves the quality of care for future patients, but …

The Best Response to Medical Errors?

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/best-response-medical-errors-transparency

In 2006, Harvard’s teaching hospitals adopted a policy on responding to medical errors. About 500 of the hospitals’ senior …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763131/

Active errors are those taking place between a person and an aspect of a larger system at the point of contact. Active errors are made by people on the front line …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/medical-errors-honesty-is-the-best-policy-2016100310405

How common are medical errors? Medical errors are, frankly, rampant. A recent study used data analysis and extrapolation to estimate that “communication breakdowns, diagnostic errors, …

Nurses' identification and reporting of medication errors

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30428146/

Fear of the consequences was the main reason given for not reporting medication errors. When errors are reported, it is likely to be to physicians. Relevance to clinical practice: …

Reporting a Doctor or Hospital for Medical Malpractice

https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/medical-malpractice/report-doctor-hospital.html

All medical errors should be reported to a state's medical complaint board. The process of filing a report and the subsequent proceedings vary significantly by state. In general, …

When There’s No One to Whom an Error …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/when-theres-no-one-whom-error-can-be-disclosed-how-should-error-be-handled/2019-07

When a patient is both incompetent and unrepresented, documentation, disclosure, and rectification of errors are particularly important to consider. Case An 82-year-old man is brought to the …

To Whom Medical Errors Should Be Reported | Day of Difference

https://dayofdifference.org.au/t-medical/to-whom-medical-errors-should-be-reported.html

All medical errors should be reported to a state's medical complaint board. The process of filing a report and the subsequent proceedings vary significantly by state. In general, …