Residents' reflections on quality improvement: temporal stability and associations with preventability of adverse patient events.

Christopher M. Wittich; Darcy A. Reed; Monica M. Drefahl; Furman S. McDonald; Kris G. Thomas; Andrew J. Halvorsen; Thomas Beckman

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Residents' reflections on quality improvement: temporal stability and associations with preventability of adverse patient events.

July 2, 2014

Wittich CM, Reed DA, Drefahl MM, et al. Acad Med. 2011;86(6):737-41.

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This study found that residents’ reflections on improvement opportunities were stable over their 3-year training period, lower for systems reflections than for personal ones, and associated with the preventability of adverse events.

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