Although it has limits, open communication can decrease the emotional and behavioral impacts of medical errors. Open communication with patients after medical errors decreases emotional impacts and ...

To prevent medical mishaps with patients caused by telephone communication failures, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System report in the October issue of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The quality of information about patients who were transferred from one hospital to another was often ...

Healthcare providers should use open communication when disclosing medical errors to limit adverse outcomes such as healthcare avoidance or loss of trust among patients, according to a study published ...

True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

Preventable medical errors encompass a wide range of mistakes including misdiagnosis, medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections and communication breakdowns among health ...

Approximately one-third of malpractice cases involving nursing cite a breakdown in communication, according to the recently published “Malpractice Risks in Communication Failures: 2015 Annual ...

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that using the I-PASS communication system for patient hand-off between providers significantly reduced patient injuries due to ...

Instead, we must recognize errors as complex, often arising from a convergence of factors-including gaps in knowledge and communication, inadequate awareness, and various system-based challenges." ...