Intersystem medical error discovery: a document analysis of ethical guidelines.

Blake Duffy; Jacquelyn Miller; C. Ann Vitous; Lesly A. Dossett

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Intersystem medical error discovery: a document analysis of ethical guidelines.

January 12, 2022

Duffy B, Miller J, Vitous CA, et al. J Patient Saf. 2021;17(8):e1765-e1773.

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Healthcare providers are increasingly disclosing their errors to patients. This review summarizes available guidance for how and when to report other providers’ errors, particularly those outside their own facility or system. Guidelines tended to be ambiguous and restricted to incompetence.

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