From: Female residents experiencing medical errors in general internal medicine: a qualitative study
Domains covered | Questions asked |
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General considerations about medical errors | 1. How would you define a medical error? |
Residents’ personal experiences with errors | 2. Did you experience a medical error? |
Could you describe this experience and explain how you were involved? | |
3. If you think again about that time, do you remember how you felt? | |
4. How did your supervisors, colleagues and relatives react at that time? | |
5. Did you feel supported by your supervisors and colleagues? | |
6. Which were the main factors that contributed to this error? | |
7. Today, how do you feel about this error? | |
8. How did this error impact on your private and professional life? | |
Were they long-term consequences? | |
Residents’ ways of coping | 9. If you think again about that time, which resources did you use to manage the error? |
10. Could you have used other resources? | |
Gender issues and errors | 11. Do you think that being a woman could have influenced your experience or management of this error? |
Could you provide an example? |