Cognitive biases can threaten patient safety in a variety of ways. This narrative review summarizes the common cognitive biases in surgical care and how they threaten patient safety, including delays in diagnosis and treatment, unnecessary surgeries, and intraoperative errors and complications. The authors also discuss cognitive debiasing strategies to mitigate the impact of cognitive biases.

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.

… errors, asking for full disclosure whenever possible. A review article and a WebM&M commentary discuss frameworks for providers to use …

… Coll Surg … Learning from other organizations' errors is a recognized opportunity to engage in safety improvement. … others is an ethical responsibility. The authors describe a framework to build a culture that draws from quality, holism , collaboration, …

… of medical errors to patients is central to maintaining a therapeutic provider–patient relationship. However, little … of medical errors occurring prior to the referral of a patient. Most believed that error disclosure did not …

… were significantly reduced. This finding is similar to a previous study . Interestingly, despite considerable …

… patients experiencing adverse events under their care, a quarter of which were attributed to errors. The most …