Commentary Forgive and forget: recognition of error and use of apology as preemptive steps to ADR or litigation in medical malpractice cases. Citation Text: Davenport AA. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL May 10, 2006 Davenport AA. View more articles from the same authors. The author reviews current systems for medical malpractice litigation and discusses what, from the legal perspective, should ideally occur following a medical error. Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Davenport AA. Copy Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know. September 14, 2005 The next wave of hospital innovation to make patients safer. August 17, 2016 Rapid response teams as a patient safety practice for failure to rescue. July 7, 2021 Near-miss events detected using the emergency department trigger tool. 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Emergency department adverse events detected using the emergency department trigger tool. August 24, 2022
Adverse events present on arrival to the emergency department: the ED as a dual safety net. March 11, 2020
The emergency department trigger tool: a novel approach to screening for quality and safety events. September 30, 2020
A quality improvement initiative to improve patient safety event reporting by residents. February 9, 2022
Nurse's Achilles Heel: using big data to determine workload factors that impact near misses. April 14, 2021
Safety trade-offs in home care during COVID-19: a mixed methods study capturing the perspective of frontline workers. September 29, 2021
Analysis of iatrogenic and in-hospital medication errors reported to United States poison centers: a retrospective observational study. June 24, 2020
Hospital board and management practices are strongly related to hospital performance on clinical quality metrics. August 19, 2015
"At home, with care": lessons from New York City home-based primary care practices managing COVID-19. December 16, 2020
Video-based communication assessment of physician error disclosure skills by crowdsourced laypeople and patient advocates who experienced medical harm: reliability assessment with generalizability theory. May 18, 2022
The cost of quality: an academic health center's annual costs for its quality and patient safety infrastructure. July 25, 2018
Association of default electronic medical record settings with health care professional patterns of opioid prescribing in emergency departments: A randomized quality improvement study February 12, 2020
Special Section on Human Factors and Ergonomics in the Operating Room: Contributions That Advance Surgical Practice. June 19, 2019
Proceed with reasonable care: when legal principles inform training to prevent harm during the childbirth. February 9, 2022
Next of kin involvement in regulatory investigations of adverse events that caused patient death: a process evaluation. December 22, 2021
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, meaningful communication between family caregivers and residents of long-term care facilities is imperative. June 24, 2020
Association of open communication and the emotional and behavioural impact of medical error on patients and families: state-wide cross-sectional survey. February 12, 2020
Unleash the power of patients to make care safer around the world: an essay by Helen Haskell. September 25, 2019
"Sorry" is never enough: how state apology laws fail to reduce medical malpractice liability risk. April 24, 2019
Can communication-and-resolution programs achieve their potential? Five key questions. December 19, 2018
Supporting second victims of patient safety events: shouldn't these communications be covered by legal privilege? February 12, 2014
Communication-and-resolution programs: the challenges and lessons learned from six early adopters. January 15, 2014
Should medical malpractice prevention be considered separately or as an integral part of comprehensive health care safety improvement? August 28, 2013