Patients and clinicians may hold implicit gender biases and rate women clinicians more negatively. In this study, adverse event reports written about residents were reviewed to determine if resident gender was associated with different types and frequency of incident reports. The most comment complaint about men physicians involved a medical error, while the most common complaint type about women included a communication-related event. Additionally, women were more frequently identified by name only, without a title such as “doctor”.

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Approximately 8% of rapid response team calls at an academic medical center were for patients who were not hospitalized—primarily patients attending outpatient visits or undergoing outpatient procedures. The majority of these patients subsequently required hospital admission.

… reviewed medical emergency response team activations in a radiology department. Radiology accidents accounted for 10% …

… that inaction, such as failure to rescue, accounted for a large proportion of nurses' culpability. … Painter LM, Dudjak LA, Kidwell KM, Simmons RL, Kidwell RP. The nurse's …

… Saf Health Care … Qual Saf Health Care … Implementation of a rapid response system (RRS, also known as medical emergency … has not documented the desired effect, as discussed in a recent commentary . This retrospective study, conducted at … not have prevented more arrests. … Galhotra S, DeVita MA, Simmons RL, Dew MA; Members of the Medical Emergency Response …