Reporting Medical Errors to Improve Patient Safety<subtitle>A Survey of Physicians in Teaching Hospitals</subtitle>

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To evaluate the attitudes and actual reporting behaviors of faculty and resident physicians regarding medical errors in teaching hospital environments.
Survey administered to resident and faculty physicians across teaching hospitals.
Assessed physician willingness to disclose hypothetical harm-causing errors compared with their history of filing real error reports.
A majority of faculty and resident physicians report an inclination to log hypothetical errors that result in patient harm.
Only a minority of surveyed physicians have actually submitted an official medical error report in practice.

Survey reveals high willingness but low actual reporting of medical errors among hospital physicians, highlighting a critical gap in patient safety.

Most faculty and resident physicians are inclined to report harm-causing hypothetical errors, but only a minority have actually reported an error.

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Lauris C. Kaldjian (2008) studied this question.

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