Enlisting Patients to Reduce Medical Errors
Two recent reports on patient safety reinforce a compelling yet fairly obvious claim: doctors can reduce medical error by enlisting patients as participants in that process. Such a participation would mean more frank, proactive disclosure by healthcare professionals of the risks of medical error to...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2016-11-01
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Series: | Voices in Bioethics |
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Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/bioethics/article/view/5992 |