Taking the blame: appropriate responses to medical error. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Taking the blame: appropriate responses to medical error. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published November 2018

Taking the blame: appropriate responses to medical error.

Tigard DW. J Med Ethics. 2018 Nov 9; [Epub ahead of print].

Balancing between explicit calls for accountability for error and constructive discussion of mistakes in health care is challenging. This editorial discusses blame in the context of medical errors and suggests that healthy acceptance of responsibility for error enables the disclosureand apology needed to generate healing and learning.

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