The Depiction of Medical Errors in a Sample of Medical Television Shows
| Autor: | Molly C. Carney, Carissa Harnish-Cruz, Tonya S. King, Renyta Scales, Anna Yumen, Robert P. Olympia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Medical knowledge
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) General Engineering Sample (statistics) Affect (psychology) Quality Improvement medical error healthcare quality adverse events Emotional trauma Medical Education continuing education Emergency medicine Internal Medicine Medicine Anxiety Observational study medicine.symptom business Adverse effect |
| Zdroj: | Cureus |
| ISSN: | 2168-8184 |
| DOI: | 10.7759/cureus.11994 |
| Popis: | Background: Medical errors and adverse events may affect up to 7.5% of hospitalizations, although observational studies suggest the numbers could be even higher. Previous studies have shown that medical television (TV) shows may be a major driver when it comes to a patient’s medical knowledge and perspectives. Methods: Six episodes from the first season of eight medical TV series were analyzed by four reviewers. Demographics of the healthcare provider responsible for the error, demographics of the victim, type of error, setting of error, level of disability, and reporting of the error were recorded. Data was compared with event rates from US hospitals. Results: A total of 242 medical errors (average 6.4/hr) were included in the analysis. The healthcare provider responsible for the error was often an attending physician (55.8%), while victims were often White (73.6%), males (55.0%), aged 16-44 years (50.8%). Errors in diagnosis (28.9%) and operative errors (19.4%) were most common. Compared with data from US hospitals, TV series depicted more errors in diagnosis (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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