Malpractice & Risk

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Malpractice & Risk

The medical-legal aspects of informed consent in orthopaedic surgery. Bhattacharyya T, Yeon H, & Harris MB. (2005).
Unintended Medication Discrepancies at the Time of Hospital Admission. Cornish PL, Knowles SR, Marchesano R, Tam V, Shadowitz S, Juurlink DN, Etchelis EE (2005).
Understanding risk and lessons for clinical risk communication about treatment preferences. Edwards A, & Elwyn G. (2001).
Errors in medical interpretation and their potential clinical consequences in pediatric encounters. Flores G, Barton Laws M, Mayo SJ, et al. (2003).
Patient complaints and malpractice risk. Hickson GB, Federspiel CF, Pichert JW, Miller CS, Gauld-Jaeger J, & Bost P. (2002).
Communication gaffes: A root cause of malpractice claims. Huntington B, & Kuhn, N. (2003).
The relationship between patients’ perception of care and measures of hospital quality and safety. Isaac T, Zaslavsky AM, Cleary PD, Landon BE. (2010).
Do Poor People Sue Doctors More Frequently? Confronting Unconscious Bias and the Role of Cultural Competency. McClellan F, White AA, Jimenez RL, & Fahmy SM. (2012).
Profiles in patient safety: Medication errors in the emergency department. Croskerry P, Shapiro M, Campbell S, LeBlanc C, Sinclair D, Wren P, et al. (2004)
Accident and Emergency nurses' attitudes towards health promotion. Cross R. (2005).
Communication in emergency medicine: Implications for patient safety. Eisenberg EM, Murphy AG, Sutcliffe K, Wears R, Schenkel S, Perry S, & Vanderhoef M.(2005).
Errors in a busy emergency department. Fordyce J. Blank F.S.J. Pekow P. Smithline H.A. Ritter G. Gehlbach S. Benjamin E. Henneman P.L. (2003).
Strategies used by nurses to recover medical errors in an academic emergency department setting. Henneman EA, Blank FS, Gawlinski A, & Henneman PL. (2006).
Emergency physicians and disclosure of medical errors. Moskop JC, Geiderman JM, Hobgood CD, & Larkin GL. (2006).
Impact of extended‐duration shifts on medical errors, adverse events, and attentional failures. Barger LK, Ayas NT, Cade BE, Cronin J.W., Rosner B., Speizer F.E., & Czeisler C.A. (2006).
Communication failures in the operating room: an observational classification of recurrent types and effects. Lingard L, Espin S, Whyte S, Regehr G, Baker GR, Reznick R, Bohnen J, Orser B, Doran D, Grober E. (2004).
When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests. Wen L and Kosowski J (2013).
The human factor: The critical importance of effective teamwork and communication in providing safe care. Leonard M, Graham S, Bonacum D. (2004)
Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys. Sexton JB, Thomas EJ, Helmreich RL. (2000).
Enhancing patient safety: Improving the patient handoff process through appreciative inquiry. Shendell‐Falik N, Feinson M, & Mohr B. (2007).
Interprofessional communication and medical error: A reframing of research questions and approaches. Varpio L, Hall P, Lingard L, & Schryer CF. (2008).
Must you disclose mistakes made by other physicians? American College of Physicians. (2003).
Medical errors and medical narcissism. Banja, J.D. (2005).
After the harm. Berlinger N. (2005).
“Views of practicing physicians and the public on medical errors.” Blendon RJ et al. (2002).
Disclosing errors and adverse events in the intensive care unit. Boyle D, O’Connell D, Platt FW and Albert RK. (2006).
No one needs to know: A physician recalls taking part in his first cover-up. Calman NS. (2001).
Disclosing errors that affect multiple patients. Chafe R, Levinson W and Sullivan T. (2009).
How surgeons disclose medical errors to patients: a study using standardized patients. Chan DK, Gallagher TH, Reznick R and Levinson W. (2005).
Disclosing harmful pathology errors to patients. Dintzis SM and Gallagher TH (2009).
Patient perspectives of patient-provider communication after adverse events. Duclos CW, Eichler M, Taylor l et al. (2005).
The Disclosure Dilemma — Large-Scale Adverse Events. Dudzinski CM, Hébert, PC, Foglia MB, Gallagher T. (2010).
Adverse Events During Hospitalization: Results of a Patient Survey. Floyd FJ; Epstein A et al (2008).
Disclosing harmful errors to patients. Gallagher TH, Studdert D and Levinson L. (2007).
Patients’ and physicians’ attitudes regarding the disclosure of medical errors. Gallagher, TH, Waterman AD, Ebers AG, Fraser VJ, and Levinson W. (2003).
Choosing your words carefully: how physicians would disclose harmful medical errors to patients. Gallagher TH, Garbutt, GM, Waterman AD et al. (2006).
US and Canadian physicians’ attitudes and experiences regarding disclosing errors to patients. Gallagher TH, Waterman AD, Garbutt JM et al. (2006).
“New standards, new dilemmas - reflections on managing medicalmistakes” Hamm G, SS Kraman. (2001).
Which medical error to disclose to patients and by whom? Public preference and perceptions of norm and current practice. Hammami MM, Attalah S, Al Qadire M. (2010).
How does routine disclosure of medical error affect patients' propensity to sue and their assessment of provider quality? Evidence from survey data. Helmchen LA, Richards MR, McDonald TB. (2010).
Patients' and Family Members' Experiences of Open Disclosure Following Adverse Events. Iedema R, Sorensen R, Manias E, Tuckett A, Piper D, Mallock N, Williams A, Jorm C.
Does full disclosure of medical errors affect malpractice liability: the jury is still out. Kachalia A, Shojania KG, Hofer TP, Piotrowski M and Saint S. (2003).
Liability claims and costs before and after implementation of a medical error disclosure program. Kachalia A, Kaufman SR, Boothman R, Anderson S, Welch K, Saint S, Rogers MA. (2010).
Facilitating and impeding factors for physicians' error disclosure: a structured literature review. Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Rosenthal GE.(2006).
Changing the culture in medical education to teach patient safety. Kirch DG, Boysen PG. (2010).
On apology. Lazare A. (2004).
Apology in medical practice: an emerging clinical skill. Lazare A. (2006).
A mediation skills model to manage disclosure of errors and adverse events to patients. Liebman CB, Hyman CS. (2004).
The health plan members’ views about disclosure of medical errors. Mazor KM et al. (2004).
Disclosure of medical errors: what factors influence how patients respond? Mazor KM et al (2006).
Disclosing unexpected outcomes and medical error. O’Connell D and SW Reifsteck (2004).
Ashamed to admit it: Owning up to medical error. Ofri D. (2010).
Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Healthcare System. Sage WM and Kersh R Eds. (2006).
Disclosing errors to patients: Perspectives of registered nurses. Shannon SE, Foglia MB, Hardy M and Gallagher TH (2009).
Claims, errors and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigation. Studdert DM, Mello MM, Gawande AA et al. (2006).
Disclosure of medical injury to patients: an improbable risk management strategy. Studdert DM, Mello MM, Gawande AA, Bennan TA and Wang YC. (2007).
Error reporting and disclosure systems: views from hospital leaders. Weissman JS, Annas CL, Epstein AM et al. (2005).
Association of perceived medical errors with resident distress and empathy. West CP, Huschka MM, Novotny PJ et al. (2006).
Disclosure of Medical Errors to Patients. Wilson J, & McCaffery R. (2005).
Disclosing medical errors to patients: it's not what you say, it's what they hear. Wu AW, Huang IC, Stokes S, Pronovost PJ.(2009).
A Better Approach to Medical Malpractice Claims? The University of Michigan Experience. Boothman RC, Blackwell AC, Campbell DA, Jr., et al. (2009).
Full disclosure and apology – an idea whose time has come. Leape, L. (2006).
A mediation skills model to manage disclosure of errors and adverse events to patients. Liebman CB, Hyman CS. (2004).