Stepping out further from the shadows: disclosure of harmful radiologic errors to patients.

Stephen D. Brown; Constance D Lehman; Robert D. Truog; David M. Browning; Thomas H. Gallagher

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Stepping out further from the shadows: disclosure of harmful radiologic errors to patients.

February 15, 2012

Brown SD, Lehman CD, Truog RD, et al. Radiology. 2012;262(2):381-386.

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This commentary reviews direct disclosure of radiology errors to patients, barriers to those discussions, and tactics to improve them.

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