PMID- 29461160
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190123
LR  - 20190123
IS  - 1943-569X (Electronic)
IS  - 0003-1488 (Linking)
VI  - 252
IP  - 5
DP  - 2018 Mar 1
TI  - Veterinarians' experiences with near misses and adverse events.
PG  - 586-595
LID - 10.2460/javma.252.5.586 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of medical errors (specifically, near misses 
      [NMs] and adverse events [AEs]) and their personal and professional impact on 
      veterinarians. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SAMPLE Members of the Veterinary 
      Information Network (n = 46,481). PROCEDURES An electronic survey regarding 
      veterinarians' experiences with NMs and AEs was distributed via email to an 
      online veterinary community between September 24 and October 21, 2015. Responses 
      were summarized and compared between genders by means of the chi(2) test. RESULTS 
      606 veterinarians completed the survey (1.3% response rate). Overall, 447 (73.8%) 
      respondents reported involvement in >/= 1 NM (n = 389 [64.2%]) or AE (179 [29.5%]). 
      The NMs had a short-term (</= 1 week) adverse impact on professional life for 68.0% 
      (261/384) of respondents and longer-term negative impact for 36.4% (140/385). The 
      impact on respondents' personal lives was similar (63.6% [245/385] and 33.5% 
      [129/385], respectively). For AEs, these numbers were 84.1% (148/176), 56.2% 
      (99/177), 77.8% (137/176), and 50.6% (89/175), respectively. Both NMs and AEs 
      were more likely to negatively impact female veterinarians than male 
      veterinarians. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE These findings suggested that 
      many veterinarians experience emotional distress after a medical error. Support 
      should be provided to mitigate this adverse impact on the wellbeing of 
      veterinarians and, potentially, their future patients.
FAU - Kogan, Lori R
AU  - Kogan LR
FAU - Rishniw, Mark
AU  - Rishniw M
FAU - Hellyer, Peter W
AU  - Hellyer PW
FAU - Schoenfeld-Tacher, Regina M
AU  - Schoenfeld-Tacher RM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Am Vet Med Assoc
JT  - Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
JID - 7503067
SB  - IM
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Internet
MH  - Male
MH  - *Medical Errors
MH  - North America
MH  - *Practice Patterns, Physicians'
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Veterinarians/*psychology
EDAT- 2018/02/21 06:00
MHDA- 2019/01/24 06:00
CRDT- 2018/02/21 06:00
PHST- 2018/02/21 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/02/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/01/24 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.2460/javma.252.5.586 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2018 Mar 1;252(5):586-595. doi: 10.2460/javma.252.5.586.