Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2015 Feb;139(2):163-4. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2014-0136-ED.
Pathologists and medical error disclosure: don't wait for an invitation.
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- 1From the Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas (Dr Cohen); and the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (Dr Allen).
"Like our clinical colleagues,
pathologists should not wait for an invitation to participate
in error disclosure—far from it—pathologists should become
active participants in discussing with patients the
events surrounding a potential medical error, how it was
discovered, and what is being done to ensure that the
medical error never happens again. They should absolutely
be involved in every situation for which there is potential
pathologist or laboratory error; they should invite themselves
to actively participate in situations for which a
laboratory issue may have played an indirect role; and they
should liberally offer to participate in other, nonlaboratoryrelated,
disclosure conversations in case a question or
concern regarding the laboratory arises. It is in such an
advocacy role that pathologists can best serve their patients."
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