ArticleThe Journal of medicine and philosophy2023
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms.
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- The Impact of Assessing Patients' Sense of Security on Nurses' Intent to Report Safety Events: A Factorial Survey Experiment.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
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- Toward Safe and Ethical Implementation of Health Care Artificial Intelligence: Insights From an Academic Medical Center.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health · 2025Review
- Nurse judgements of hospitalized patients' safety concerns are affected by patient, nurse and event characteristics: A factorial survey experiment.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Article
- The power and pain of words: how language matters in responding to patients after harm.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Tackling disrespect in health care: The relevance of socio-relational equality.Journal of health services research & policy · 2024Article
- When the Trial Ends: The Case for Post-Trial Provisions in Clinical Psychedelic Research.Neuroethics · 2024Article
- Improving responses to safety incidents: we need to talk about justice.BMJ quality & safety · 2022Article
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Abstract
Patient safety is a central aspect of healthcare quality, focusing on preventable, iatrogenic harm. Harm, in this context, is typically assumed to mean physical injury to patients, often caused by technical error. However, some contributions to the patient safety literature have argued that disrespectful behavior towards patients can cause harm, even when it does not lead to physical injury. This paper investigates the nature of such dignitary harms and explores whether they should be included within the scope of patient safety as a field of practice. We argue that dignitary harms in health care are-at least sometimes-preventable, iatrogenic harms. While we caution against including dignitary harms within the scope of patient safety just because they are relevantly similar to other iatrogenic harms, we suggest that thinking about dignitary harms can help to elucidate the value of patient safety, and to illuminate the evolving relationship between safety and quality.
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