Medical errors - What and when: What do patients want to know?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1156-1161

  Hobgood, Cherri ^a   Peck, Clifford R ^b   Gilbert, Benjamin ^b   Chappell, Kathryn ^b   Zou, Bin ^b  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Medical errors; Patient preferences; Reporting

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ERROR; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036844329     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.11.1156     Document Type: Article

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