Reporting medical errors to improve patient safety: a survey of physicians in teaching hospitals.

Lauris C Kaldjian; Elizabeth W Jones; Barry J Wu; Valerie L Forman-Hoffman; Benjamin H Levi; Gary E Rosenthal

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Reporting medical errors to improve patient safety: a survey of physicians in teaching hospitals.

January 23, 2008

Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Wu BJ, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(1):40-6.

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This study surveyed 338 faculty and resident physicians, finding that most would report a list of hypothetical errors presented, but only a small number have actually reported an error in practice.

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