Communication with patients after errors.
The study, published in 2003, looks at more than 120 sources of existing research, studies, and policies to consider errors and adverse incidents, particularly involving doctors, and the quality of communication with patients after an incident has happened. The researchers, however, said the research evidence was inadequate and nothing was clear cut.
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Cancer Research UK, Psychosocial Oncology Group, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton.
D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology; D011364:Professional Practice; D013222:State Medicine; D014342:Truth Disclosure / Q000941:ethics; D006113:United Kingdom