AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Patient Disclosure

PATIENT SAFETY PRIMERS
Error Disclosure

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (2)

•Diagnostic Errors (9)

•Identification Errors (7)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (3)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (1)

•Medication Safety (27)

•Medical Complications (15)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (3)

•Surgical Complications (13)

•Psychological and Social Complications (31)

Origin/Sponsor

•Asia (1)

•Australia and New Zealand (11)

Resource Types

•Journal Article (137)

•Legislation/Regulation (7)

•Meeting/Conference (1)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (24)

•Special or Theme Issue (8)

•Tools/Toolkit (2)

•Web Resource (4)

•Grant (1)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (14)

•Active Errors (40)

•Latent Errors (9)

•Near Miss (4)

Approach to Improving Safety
< All

Patient Disclosure

Clinical Areas

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (164)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (154)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (85)

•Patients (31)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (71)

•Ambulatory Care (5)

•Outpatient Surgery (2)

•Patient Transport (1)

1 - 20 of 207

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

GRANT RECIPIENT

Improving Patient Safety Through Simulation Research.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2008.

COMMENTARY

Communication with patients, suffering severe, avoidable harm as a result of treatment.

Cornwell J. Saferhealthcare. April 26, 2007.

STUDY

Parental preferences for error disclosure, reporting, and legal action after medical error in the care of their children.

Hobgood C, Tamayo-Sarver JH, Elms A, Weiner B. Pediatrics. 2005;116:1276-1286.

STUDY

Patient assessments of a hypothetical medical error: effects of health outcome, disclosure, and staff responsiveness.

Cleopas A, Villaveces A, Charvet A, Bovier PA, Kolly V, Perneger TV. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:136-141.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Council recommendation on patient safety, including the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections.

Council of the European Union (2009).

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Hospital Transparency in Reporting Medical Errors.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Health Care Innovations Exchange. June 23, 2010.

BOOK/REPORT

Promoting Patient Safety: An Ethical Basis for Policy Deliberation.

Sharpe VA. Hasting Center Rep. 2003;33(suppl):S1-S20.

STUDY

How surgeons disclose medical errors to patients: a study using standardized patients.

Chan DK, Gallagher TH, Reznick R, Levinson W. Surgery. 2005;138:851-858.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Fixing America's hospitals.

Newsweek. October 16, 2006:44-68, 72.

TOOLKIT

University of Michigan Health System Patient Safety Toolkit.

University of Michigan; Ann Arbor: 2002.

COMMENTARY

Misread Label.

Franklin BD. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. November 2003.

COMMENTARY

Is consent required for publication of medical errors?

Weisbaum K, Hyland S, Bernstein M. Healthcare Q. 2005;8:66-69.

COMMENTARY

Anatomy of an incident disclosure: the importance of dialogue.

Iedema R, Allen S. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2012;38:435-442.

STUDY

Patients' concerns about medical errors during hospitalization.

Burroughs TE, Waterman AD, Gallagher TH, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:5-14.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Standards, audits, and saying I'm sorry: an engineer's family proposes solutions.

Wojcieszak D. Patient Safety Qual Healthc. May/June 2005;2:6, 8-9.

COMMENTARY

Disclosing unanticipated outcomes to patients: the art and practice.

Gallagher TH, Denham CR, Leape LL, Amori G, Levinson W. J Patient Saf. 2007;3:158-165.

STUDY

Medical error disclosure training: evidence for values-based ethical environments.

Rathert C, Phillips W. J Bus Ethics. 2010;97:491-503.

STUDY

Disclosing clinical adverse events to patients: can practice inform policy?

Sorensen R, Iedema R, Piper D, Manias E, Williams A, Tuckett A. Health Expect. 2010;13:148-159.

COMMENTARY

How Do Providers Recover from Errors?

West CP. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. January 2008.

STUDY

Nursing2006 Patient-safety survey report.

Manno M, Hogan P, Heberlein V, Nyakiti J, Mee CL. Nursing. 2006 May;36:54-63.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >