Perspectives of Emergency Clinicians About Medical Errors Resulting in Patient Harm or Malpractice Litigation

Daniel Ostrovsky; Victor Novack; Peter B Smulowitz; Ryan C Burke; Bruce E Landon; Linda M Isbell

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.41461

Perspectives of Emergency Clinicians About Medical Errors Resulting in Patient Harm or Malpractice Litigation

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Nov 1;5(11):e2241461. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.41461.

Authors

Daniel Ostrovsky¹, Victor Novack¹, Peter B Smulowitz², Ryan C Burke³, Bruce E Landon^{4

5}, Linda M Isbell⁶

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Division of General Internal, Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study analyzes responses to a survey about medical error outcomes completed by emergency department attending physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Humans
Malpractice*
Medical Errors
Patient Harm*