Medical Error Disclosure Ethics

Disclosure of medical errors: physicians ... - BMC …

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Interestingly, the prevalence of disclosure of medical errors remains fluctuant, as studies found that 50 to 96% of errors in the US are underreported by physicians [12, 13]. Nevertheless, physicians still acknowledge disclosure of medical …

Error Reporting and Disclosure - Patient Safety and …

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Additionally, the ethical principles of beneficence (doing good) and nonmaleficence (preventing harm) are violated when errors are not reported or disclosed. These ethical …

Disclosure of Errors | PSNet

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Ethical Dilemmas With Disclosing Medical Errors

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Ethical Dilemmas With Disclosing Medical Errors Allegation. Case File. An ophthalmologist scheduled corrective surgery for a nine-year-old female patient who …

Ethics: Ethical Issues with Medical Errors: Shaping a …

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Considerable research in recent years has focused on disclosure of medical errors but has lacked interdisciplinary dialogue (Hannawa, Beckman, Mazor, Paul, & …

AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions on …

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Opinion 8.121 - Ethical Responsibility to Study and Prevent Error and Harm In the context of health care, an error is an unintended act or omission, or a flawed system or plan, that harms …

Content of Medical Error Disclosures

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Ethicists have long endorsed the full disclosure of medical errors to patients. 1, 2, 3 In addition, recent hospital accreditation standards and some state laws require that patients …

Disclosure of medical errors - PubMed

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One specific solution advocated was the disclosure to patients and their families of adverse events resulting from medical error. Knowledge of the historical perspective, …

The Ethical Obligation for Disclosure of Medical …

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The Ethical Obligation for Disclosure of Medical Error in the Intensive ... ... 6

[Ethical dilemmas about disclosure of errors in medicine]

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Although human error cannot be eliminated, it is possible to design safety systems to mitigate their frequency and consequences. Our goal is to provide an update on the …