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[Clinical error and adverse events: Primary care doctors perception].

Francesc Borrell-Carrió1, Carmen Páez Regadera, Rosa Suñol Sala

  • 1EAP Gavarra, Unidad Docente MFC, Cornellà de Llobregat, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, España. fborrell@cp.ics

Atencion Primaria
|June 23, 2006
PubMed
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Primary care physicians acknowledge frequent clinical errors and adverse events, though a significant portion deny making mistakes. Younger doctors are more likely to report errors to their teams.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical error analysis
  • Patient safety in primary care
  • Physician perception of clinical errors

Background:

  • Clinical errors and adverse events are common in healthcare.
  • Understanding physician perspectives on errors is crucial for improving patient safety.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how primary care physicians perceive and manage clinical errors (CE) and/or adverse events (AE).

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional study utilizing a personal mail survey.
  • Surveyed primary care physicians from "Ambit Costa de Ponent" (n=717).
  • Standardized questionnaire assessed error/AE frequencies and physician characteristics (e.g., "deniers", "perceptive", "internal locus of control").

Main Results:

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  • A response rate of 33.2% (238 physicians) with an average age of 42.6 years.
  • 28% identified as "deniers" (never making mistakes), while 67% were "perceptive" (admitted errors in the last year).
  • Average physician reported 10.6 AEs annually, with drug side-effects and diagnostic delays in oncology being most frequent. Common reactions included contacting the patient (80%) and team communication (41.4%).

Conclusions:

  • Adverse events and clinical errors are frequent, yet a third of physicians deny personal error.
  • Younger male physicians, unlike senior ones, tend to communicate errors to their teams.
  • Physicians with an "internal locus of control" and those who are "hyperperceptive" reported stronger emotional responses to errors.