The medical tort system does not deter medical errors, compensates a small percentage of patients affected by negligent care, and is driving shortages in specialty care through rapidly rising insurance rates. New approaches, including an administrative system of health courts may address these issues and improve patient safety.
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Facilitating and Impeding Factors for Physicians' Error Disclosure
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors performed a structured literature review to enhance understanding of factors that both impede and enhance disclosure of medical errors. They performed a MEDLINE search of related articles published between 1975 and 2004, which yielded 5, ...
Understanding Diagnostic Errors in Medicine
June 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors present a real-life case in which a patient's spinal cord compression was delayed to illustrate how "situational awareness" (SA) can be used to understand diagnostic errors in medicine. SA is defined as "a person's perception of the elem ...
An Empirically Derived Taxonomy of Factors Affecting Physicians' Willingness to Disclose Medical Errors
September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Physician disclosure of medical errors to institutions, patients and colleagues is important for patient safety, patient care and professional education, yet numerous factors pose impediments to disclosure. The authors of this article saw a need to ...
Reporting Medical Errors to Improve Patient Safety
January 14, 2008 | Journal Article
In this study, the authors examined how physicians and other health care providers view error disclosure, how frequently they report errors, and what the obstacles to their reporting them might be.
Reducing Diagnostic Errors Through Effective Communication
April 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Diagnostic errors in medical situations are the cause of the majority of medical liability claims in the U.S. with an average payout of $300,000. This article describes a framework for improving medical communications using info information technology (IT) interventions to assist providers in the diagnostic process.
Identifying Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Using an Electronic Screening Algorithm
February 12, 2007 | Journal Article
Examining the viability and utility of electronic screening algorithms to detect diagnostic errors in primary care.
Medical Errors Involving Trainees
October 22, 2007 | Journal Article
Graduate medical education poses unique challenges for the delivery of safe patient care because work carried out by medical trainees often involves special risks. Although those in the medical profession recognize these risk factors, there have bee ...
Physicians Who Prescribe Too Many Painkillers Head Back to School to Save Licenses
March 1, 2007 | Program Result
Investigators at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center created the Center for Professional Health, which provides a program for health professionals who overprescribe painkillers or other controlled drugs.