What contributes to internists' willingness to disclose medical errors?

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 242-

  Linthorst, G E ^a   Kallimanis King, B L ^b   Douwes Dekker, I ^b   Hoekstra, J B L ^a   de Haes, J C J M ^b  

^a Departments of Internal Medicine   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disclosure of errors; Errors; Medical education

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNIST; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 84866064702     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Kohn L, Corrigan J. To err is human: building a safer health system. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine. National Academy of Sciences; 1999.
2. Gallagher TH, Waterman AD, Ebers AG, Fraser VJ, Levinson W. Patients' and physicians' attitudes regarding the disclosure of medical errors. JAMA. 2003;289:1001-7.
3. Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Wu BJ, Forman-Hoffman VL, Levi BH, Rosenthal GE. Disclosing medical errors to patients: attitudes and practices of physicians and trainees. J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22:988-96.
4. Levinson W. Disclosing medical errors to patients: a challenge for health care professionals and institutions. Patient Educ Couns. 2009;76:296-9.
5. Iedema R, Allen S, Britton K, et al. Patients' and family members' views on how clinicians enact and how they should enact incident disclosure: the "100 patient stories" qualitative study. BMJ. 2011;343:d4423.
6. Mazor KM, Simon SR, Gurwitz JH. Communicating with patients about medical errors: a review of the literature. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:1690-7.
7. Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Wu BJ, Forman-Hoffman VL, Levi BH, Rosenthal GE. Reporting medical errors to improve patient safety: a survey of physicians in teaching hospitals. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168:40-6.
8. Bandura A. Self efficacy: the exercise of control. New York: WH Freeman; 1997.
9. De Vries H, Mudde AN, Dijkstra A, Willemsen MC. Differential beliefs, perceived social influences, and self-efficacy expectations among smokers in various motivational phases. Prev Med. 1998;27(5 Pt 1):681-9.
10. Blendon RJ, DesRoches CM, Brodie M, et al. Views of practicing physicians and the public on medical errors. N Engl J Med. 2002;347(24):1933-40.
11. Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Rosenthal GE, Tripp-Reimer T, Hillis SL. An empirically derived taxonomy of factors affecting physicians' willingness to disclose medical errors. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21:942-8.
12. Smits M, Christiaans-Dingelhoff I, Wagner C, van der Wal G, Groenewegen P. The validity of COMPaZ (Dutch). Tijdschr Soc Gezondheidszorg. 2007;2:105-14.
13. Shanafelt TD, Balch CM, Bechamps G, et al. Burnout and medical errors among American surgeons. Ann Surg. 2010;251:995-1000.
14. Hall JA, Blanch-Hartigan D, Roter DL. Patients' satisfaction with male versus female physicians: a meta-analysis. Med Care. 2011;49:611-7.
15. Ghalandarpoorattar SM, Kaviani A, Asghari F. Medical error disclosure: the gap between attitude and practice. Postgrad Med J. 2012;88:130-3.
16. Bertakis KD. The influence of gender on the doctor patient interaction. Patient Educ Couns. 2009;76:365-0.
17. Kronman AC, Paasche-Orlow M, Orlander JD. Factors associated with disclosure of medical errors by housestaff. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:271-8.