medical errors

January 4, 2018

A UW Medicine-developed approach standardizes communications between caregivers, supplying critical details about patients.

The age-old joke about physicians’ bad handwriting is no laughing matter. An illegible prescription can have dire consequences.

Physicians’ disclosure of errors has been studied more in the past decade than ever before, spurring rationales and guidelines for acknowledging one’s own mistakes with patients.

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