Objectives. GPs’ recollections about their ‘most serious errors in treatment’ and about the consequences for themselves.
Does it make a difference, who (else) contributed to the error, or to its discovery or disclosure?
Methods.
Anonymous questionnaire study concerning the ‘three most serious errors in your career as a GP’.
The participating doctors were given an operational definition of ‘serious error’. They applied a special recall technique, using patient-induced associations to bring to mind former ‘serious errors’.
The...
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