The emotional impact of medical errors on practicing physicians in the United States and Canada.

Background: Being involved in medical errors can compound the job-related stress many physicians experience. The impact of errors on physicians was examined.

Methods: A survey completed by 3,171 of the 4,990 eligible physicians in internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, and surgery (64% response rate) examined how errors affected five work and life domains.

Reporting and disclosing medical errors: pediatricians' attitudes and behaviors.

Objective: To characterize pediatricians' attitudes and experiences regarding communicating about errors with the hospital and patients' families.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Setting: St Louis, Mo, and Seattle, Wash.

Living donation decision making: recipients' concerns and educational needs.

Context: Despite the advantages of living donor transplantation, evidence suggests that some potential recipients with living donors have psychological concerns that prevent them from pursuing living donation. Addressing these concerns through education may increase the rates of living donation.

Objective: To understand the psychological barriers and educational needs of potential kidney recipients regarding living donation.