Videos
~ Deaths by medical errors underreported? – YouTube
Mainstream News
- Hospital Errors Occur 10 Times More Than Reported, Study Finds – Bloomberg
- The No. 1 killer in US hospital is … secrecy – New York Post
- Without Autopsies, Hospitals Bury Their Mistakes — ProPublica
- Blame-free system increases medical error reports – Reuters
- Bone-Chilling Mistakes Hospitals Make And Why They Don’t Want You To Know – Forbes
- Doctors are tampering with medical records to hide their mistakes – UK – Express.co.uk
- Doctors Not Always Open, Honest With Patients, Survey Finds – WBUR
- Doctors reluctant to admit mistakes (1999) – BBC News
- Exposing Medical Mistakes – Opinion – (2000) The New York Times
- Family-reported errors may go undocumented on hospital records – Reuters
- Hospital Errors Common and Underreported – ABC News
- Hospital refuses to admit mistakes, even to a doctor – The Washington Post
- Many doctors hide the truth about medical errors, study finds – Los Angeles Times
- Maryland hospitals aren’t reporting all errors and complications, experts say – Baltimore Sun
- Medical culture encourages doctors to avoid admitting mistakes – STAT
- Medical Errors Occur More Often Than Thought – Patient Safety
- Medicare Study Shows Most Medical Errors Go Unreported – Consumer Reports
- New Study Finds Medical Error Rates are Underreported – PBS NewsHour
- Report Finds Most Errors at Hospitals Go Unreported – The New York Times
- Report: Hospital Errors Often Unreported – ABC News
- Report: Most Hospital Errors Go Unreported – Fox News
- Rogue doctors could be altering records to hide their mistakes, health bodies warn – The Independent
- The 2 Things That Rarely Happen After A Medical Mistake – NPR
- The Health Care Industry Needs to be Honest About Medical Errors – Time
- Transparency is best weapon against medical mistakes (2009) – CHRON
- Without Autopsies, Hospitals Bury Their Mistakes – Post Mortem – FRONTLINE – PBS
- Without Autopsies, Hospitals Bury Their Mistakes – TruthOut
- Would a surgeon tell you if a medical error occurred during your operation? – CBS News
- Why Patients Don’t Report Medical Errors — ProPublica
Independent News
- A strategy to overcome under-reporting issues of voluntary medication error reporting system- computerized prescriber order entry as an example – MedCrave
- Hospital Errors Ten Times More Common Than Thought? – Health Affairs
- Hospital Medical Errors Underreported – Jonathan C. Reiter Law Firm
- Hospitals fail to document nearly half of all family-reported medical errors, study finds – Becker’s Hospital Review
- More Doctors Willing to Hide Mistakes, Survey Says – WebMD
- More Physicians Willing to Hide Mistakes, Survey Reveals – Medscape
- Most Adverse Events at Hospitals Still Go Unreported – The Hospitalist
- National Survey Indicates Majority of Physician Misconduct Goes Unreported – FSMB – Federation of State Medical Boards
- Report Finds Most Hospital Errors Unreported (2012) – The New York Times
- Study: Hospital Errors Occurring 10 Times More Than Previously Detected – Becker’s Hospital Review
- Too Often, Medical Malpractice Due to Misdiagnosis Goes Unreported – HG.org
- Why Hospitals Underreport the Number of Patients They Infect – Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Wrong-patient errors are underreported – 2002 – AHC Media- Continuing Medical Education Publishing
Reports
- Adverse Events in Hospitals- National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries – Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General – PDF
- Barriers to reporting medication errors and near misses among nurses- A systematic review – ScienceDirect
- Barriers to reporting medication errors and near misses among nurses- A systematic review – ScienceDirect – SciHub – PDF
- Communicating With Patients About Medical Errors- A Review of the Literature – JAMA Internal Medicine
- Does error and adverse event reporting by physicians and nurses differ? – PubMed
- Does Error and Adverse Event Reporting by Physicians and Nurses Differ? The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety – PDF
- Families as Partners in Hospital Error and Adverse Event Surveillance – JAMA Network
- Hospital Incident Reporting Systems Do Not Capture Most Patient Harm – US Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General
- Hospital incident reporting systems captured only an estimated 14 percent of the patient harm events experienced by Medicare beneficiaries
- Hospital Incident Reporting Systems Do Not Capture Most Patient Harm – US Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General – FULL REPORT PDF
- Improving Reporting of Outpatient Pediatric Medical Errors – American Academy of Pediatrics
- Improving Reporting of Outpatient Pediatric Medical Errors. PEDIATRICS – Sci-Hub – PDF
- Non-Disclosure of Medical Errors an Egregious Violation of Ethical Principles – NCBI
- Although most doctors believe that errors should be disclosed to patients when they occur, in reality, most doctors and institutions do not disclose such mishaps to patients and their families. Rather, they engage in extensive cover ups under the guise of protecting the doctor-patient relationship and not causing harm to patients.
- Perceived barriers to medical-error reporting- an exploratory investigation – PubMed
- Perceived Barriers to Medical-Error Reporting- An Exploratory Investigation. Journal of Healthcare Management – Sci-Hub – PDF
- Serious Reportable Events in 2017 Acute Care Hospitals, Non‐Acute Care Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgical Centers – Massachusetts Department of Public Health – PDF
- US and Canadian physicians’ attitudes and experiences regarding disclosing errors to patients – PubMed
- US and Canadian physicians’ attitudes and experiences regarding disclosing errors to patients – Sci-Hub.se – PDF
- Use of incident reports by physicians and nurses to document medical errors in pediatric patients – PubMed
- Use of Incident Reports by Physicians and Nurses to Document Medical Errors in Pediatric Patients. PEDIATRICS – Sci-Hub.se – PDF