Helping Clinicians Find Resolution after a Medical Error

Clinicians, operating within complex systems, make mistakes, as people do in every human endeavor, and when they do, patients are sometimes harmed. One important question is how we as clinicians can find resolution in the wake of an error. The published literature has divided errors into those cause...

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Authors: Pollack, Craig (Author) ; Bayley, Carol (Author) ; Mendiola, Michael (Author) ; McPHEE, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2003
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2003, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 203-207
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Summary:Clinicians, operating within complex systems, make mistakes, as people do in every human endeavor, and when they do, patients are sometimes harmed. One important question is how we as clinicians can find resolution in the wake of an error. The published literature has divided errors into those caused by “systems” and by “individuals.” But whereas both “systems” and “individual” approaches are important in understanding the cause of an error, neither alone can fully lead to resolution once an error has occurred. Instead, both are necessary to understand, resolve, and prevent errors.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180103002135