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Pediatricians Are Failing In Honesty
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Less than 40% of pediatricians feel medical errors are being disclosed to parents. I would grade that as an F.
Pediatricians: Error-Reporting Systems are Inadequate
Most pediatricians endorse reporting medical errors to hospitals and disclosing them to patients' families, but only 39% thought that current error-reporting systems are adequate, according to survey results reported today in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine."The current failure of hospital reporting systems to capture information about errors from physicians impedes efforts to accurately characterize the epidemiology of pediatric medical errors and to improve the safety of hospitalized children," the authors declared.
Although medical errors are frequent among hospitalized children, most current research on error reporting and disclosure has examined physicians treating adults, according to researchers.
The pediatric environment poses a "unique challenge" in error reporting because a third party--the patient's parents--must be included in the conversation, investigators noted.
While I agree it is very necessary to include the child's parents in the conversation I fail to see how this creates a "unique challenge" in error reporting. An error is an error and it should be reported to the responsible adults. I assume it is not being reported exclusively to six-year-olds. Maybe it is being whispered to parish priests in the confessional. Or, entered in Top Secret logbooks at insurance companies.
By the way, don't you love the term "Error-Reporting Systems"? Is that a part of the "Error-Producing Systems"?
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