An empirically derived taxonomy of factors affecting physicians' willingness to disclose medical errors

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 942-948

  Kaldjian, Lauris C ^a   Jones, Elizabeth W ^a,b   Rosenthal, Gary E ^a,b   Tripp Reimer, Toni ^b,c   Hillis, Stephen L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Error reporting; Medical errors; Medical ethics; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FAMILY MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; RESIDENT; TAXONOMY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746514977     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02743142     Document Type: Article

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