A Study of the Ethical Duty of Physicians to Disclose Errors

Medical mistakes and the ethical dilemmas they engender remain an unfortunate reality in contemporary medical practice. In deciding whether to disclose an error, physicians must consider ethical, legal, professional

• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Journal of Clinical Ethics

• Publication date

  1997-12-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/JCE199708404PMID 9503083
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• error disclosure

  practice, ethical issue

  The act of physicians revealing medical mistakes to patients and relevant parties, which this paper examines as an ethical obligation.

  Aliases: disclosure of medical errors, medical error disclosure

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• ethical dilemma

  ethical concept

  Moral conflicts that arise for physicians when deciding whether to disclose a medical mistake.

  Aliases: moral dilemma

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• ethical duty

  ethical concept

  The moral responsibility of physicians to inform patients of errors, studied here in the context of ethical, legal, and professional considerations.

  Aliases: ethical obligation, duty to disclose

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• medical error

  phenomenon, clinical event

  Mistakes occurring in clinical practice that generate ethical dilemmas for physicians regarding whether and how to disclose them.

  Aliases: medical mistakes, medical errors

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