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Criminal proceedings will hamper calls for open culture

BMJ 2005; 331 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7527.1272-b (Published 24 November 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;331:1272
  1. Robin E Ferner, director (r.e.ferner@bham.ac.uk),
  2. Sarah E McDowell, research officer
  1. West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting, City Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH

    EDITOR—The National Patient Safety Agency urges healthcare staff to adopt an open culture where they admit to errors in order that the organisation can learn from them and treatment be made safer. Recently, 14 senior doctors candidly described their own experiences of medical errors.1 2

    However, we …

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