Medical error, incident investigation and the second victim: doing better but feeling worse?

Albert W. Wu; Rachel C. Steckelberg

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Medical error, incident investigation and the second victim: doing better but feeling worse?

September 19, 2016

Wu AW, Steckelberg RC. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21(4):267-70.

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This commentary discusses the impact of adverse events on physicians-in-training and provides tactics to improve support for clinicians affected by medical error.

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