• Surg J R Coll Surg E · Apr 2014

    Review

    Medical error and disclosure - a view from the U.K.

    • George G Youngson.
    • Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZG, Scotland, United Kingdom. Electronic address: ggyrach@abdn.ac.uk.
    • Surg J R Coll Surg E. 2014 Apr 1;12(2):68-72.

    AbstractWhilst the steps for reacting to and communicating following a surgical error should be clear to all, actual practice is punctuated by a range of failures which lead to the harm done by the error being compounded by inadequacies in the disclosure and subsequent processes. This article outlines best practice at the current time within the United Kingdom when responding to a surgical error and it also reports the type of behaviours which result in poor levels of satisfaction from the patients' perspective - often resulting in litigation being invoked.Copyright © 2013 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Scottish charity number SC005317) and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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