While ascribing medical errors primarily to systems factors can free clinicians from individual
blame, there are elements of medical errors that can and should be attributed to individual …

Attention has recently been focused on medical errors as a cause of morbidity and mortality
in clinical practice. Although much has been written regarding the cognitive aspects of …

Medical errors are all too common. Ever since a report issued by the Institute of Medicine
raised awareness of this unfortunate reality, an emerging theme has gained prominence in …

Background. Competent physicians occasionally make critical errors in patient care that can
lead to long-last ing remorse and guilt. The perceived causes of self-ad mitted physician …

BACKGROUND Notions about the most common errors in medicine currently rest on
conjecture and weak epidemiologic evidence. We sought to determine whether cascade …

In recent years, identifying the origins of medical errors has been aided by a growing
awareness that such errors are frequently the result of flaws in the system. In short, they are …

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Objectives: To describe how physicians think and feel about their perceived mistakes, to
examine how physicians' prior beliefs and manners of coping with mistakes may influence …

This edited collection of articles addresses aspects of medical care in which human error is
associated with unanticipated adverse outcomes. For the purposes of this book, human error …

Background Physicians are being asked to report errors from primary care, but little is known
about how they apply the term" error." This study qualitatively assesses the relationship …