Study: Physicians do not apologize as much as they claim
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
May 23, 2007
A new study shows that physicians generally say they would disclose a significant error to patients, but fewer than half have actually done so.
The study, published in the online Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that 97% of physicians said they would disclose errors that lefd to minor injury to a patient, but only 41% had actually done so.
The study also showed that physicians who held forgiveness as a major part of their religious or spiritual beliefs were more likely to disclose an error than others.
