Intersystem Medical Error Discovery: A Document Analysis of Ethical Guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patient safety programs aim to improve transparency regarding medical errors, and there is broad consensus on how providers should communicate about their own errors. How providers should respond to other providers' errors is less clear, especially when they occur outside the provider's facility or system (intersystem medical error discovery [IMED]). To understand what guidance is available to healthcare professionals in this scenario, we conducted a document analysis of ethical guidelines.

Methods

We searched for ethics codes primarily using databases and lists of professional associations. We used thematic analysis to examine documents in relation to our research questions: is there guidance on (a) what a provider should do after discovering another provider's e

SUBMITTER: Duffy B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7483979 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature