Confronting medical errors in oncology and disclosing them to cancer patients.

Antonella Surbone; Michael Rowe; Thomas H. Gallagher

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Confronting medical errors in oncology and disclosing them to cancer patients.

June 30, 2011

Surbone A, Rowe M, Gallagher TH. J Clin Oncol. 2007;25(12):1463-7.

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Reviewing current concepts in error disclosure, the authors address unique considerations that oncologists face in disclosing errors to cancer patients.

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