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Pediatric Clinician Comfort Discussing Diagnostic Errors for Improving Patient Safety: A Survey.
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- Exploring Clinical Lessons Learned by Experienced Hospitalists from Diagnostic Errors and Successes.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- Types of diagnostic errors reported by paediatric emergency providers in a global paediatric emergency care research network.BMJ open quality · 2023Article
- Creating a Learning Health System for Improving Diagnostic Safety: Pragmatic Insights from US Health Care Organizations.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Use of e-triggers to identify diagnostic errors in the paediatric ED.BMJ quality & safety · 2022Article
- Development of a rubric for assessing delayed diagnosis of appendicitis, diabetic ketoacidosis and sepsis.Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) · 2021Article
- Diagnostic Safety: Needs Assessment and Informed Curriculum at an Academic Children's Hospital.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
introductionMeaningful conversations about diagnostic errors require safety cultures where clinicians are comfortable discussing errors openly. However, clinician comfort discussing diagnostic errors publicly and barriers to these discussions remain unexplored. We compared clinicians' comfort discussing diagnostic errors to other medical errors and identified barriers to open discussion.
methodsPediatric clinicians at 4 hospitals were surveyed between May and June 2018. The survey assessed respondents' comfort discussing medical errors (with varying degrees of system versus individual clinician responsibility) during morbidity and mortality conferences and privately with peers. Respondents reported the most significant barriers to discussing diagnostic errors publicly. Poststratification weighting accounted for nonresponse bias; the Benjamini-Hochberg adjustment was applied to control for false discovery (significance set at
resultsClinicians (n = 838; response rate 22.6%) were significantly less comfortable discussing all error types during morbidity and mortality conferences than privately (
conclusionsClinicians are more uncomfortable discussing diagnostic errors than other types of medical errors. The most frequent barriers involve the public perception of clinical performance. Addressing this aspect of safety culture may improve clinician participation in efforts to reduce harm from diagnostic errors.
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