Reporting medical errors to improve patient safety: a survey of physicians in teaching hospitals.

Lauris C. Kaldjian; Elizabeth W. Jones; Barry J. Wu; Valerie L. Forman-Hoffman; Benjamin H. Levi; Gary E. Rosenthal

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Reporting medical errors to improve patient safety: a survey of physicians in teaching hospitals.

February 15, 2011

Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Wu BJ, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(1):40-6.

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This study surveyed 338 faculty and resident physicians, finding that most would report a list of hypothetical errors presented, but only a small number have actually reported an error in practice.

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