Question

Bibliography for Doctors who make medical errors

Answer 1

Amori G. Disclosure skills training Forum [serial online]. May
2003;23:16–17. Available at http://www.rmf.harvard.edu/files/
documents/Forum_V23N2.pdf. Accessed August 2, 2006.
The author suugests that the communicqtions training for the physician does not prepare enough a physician to inform patients that a medical error has happened. For that a more specific training is needed to prepare the physicians to inform about the medical errors occured.

Baker, SK. Adverse patient outcomes. In: Baker SK. Managing
Patient Expectations: The Art of Finding and Keeping Loyal
Patients. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1998: 213–22.
This article suggests the significance of commun8cation between the physician and patient. It also gives information on the needs of patients and their preference.

Porto GG. Disclosure of medical error: facts and fallacies. J
Healthcare Risk Mgt. Fall 2001;21:67-76.
The author eliminates the misconceptions about medical error  and its disclosure to patientsand the importance of follow up care for injured patients and also the importance of patient physician relationship.

Hobgood C, Tamayo-Sarver JH, Elms A, Weiner B. Parental
preferences for error disclosure, reporting, and legal action
after medical error in the care of their children. Pediatrics.

In this study a survey was conducted to determine the preference and response to medical error diclosure in a group of parents whose children were admitted in an emergency department. The result showed that majority of them suggests that irrespective of the severity of the error disclosure of the error is favoured.