Open AccessChoosing Your Words Carefully
Author(s) -
Thomas H. Gallagher,
Jane Garbutt,
Amy D. Waterman,
David R. Flum,
Eric B. Larson,
Brian Waterman,
W. Claiborne Dunagan,
Victoria J. Fraser,
Wendy Levinson
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.166.15.1585
Subject(s) - specialty , medicine , family medicine , sample (material) , psychology , chromatography , chemistry
A gap exists between patients' desire to be told about medical errors and present practice. Little is known about how physicians approach disclosure. The objective of the present study was to describe how physicians disclose errors to patients.
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