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Disclosure of patient safety incidents: a comprehensive review

Author(s) -

Ellen O’Connor,

Hilary Coates,

Iain Yardley,

Albert W. Wu

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

international journal for quality in health care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.769

H-Index - 94

eISSN - 1464-3677

pISSN - 1353-4505

DOI - 10.1093/intqhc/mzq042

Subject(s) - patient safety , medical emergency , medicine , business , health care , political science , law

Adverse events are increasingly recognized as a source of harm to patients. When such harm occurs, problems arise in communicating the situation to patients and their families. We reviewed the literature on disclosure across individual and international boundaries, including patients', healthcare professionals' and other stakeholders' perspectives in order to ascertain how the needs of all groups could be better reconciled.

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