Articles Tagged With: errors
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Disclosing medical errors to children is usually the right move
The medical community has embraced the concept of disclosing medical errors to patients promptly and honestly, but there is still some question about how to handle pediatric patients. Should you tell a child that you made a mistake? If so, how?
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Healthcare is Wrong About Errors
The IOM calls on the healthcare community to address diagnosis errors by treating them as systemic problems and not human errors made by individuals.