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The surgeons' responses to the question ‘To whom should surgical errors be disclosed?’
| Recipient | Response |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| yes | no | don't know | |
| 1 The patient | 16 (15.7) | 16 (15.7) | 64 (66.7) |
| 2 The patient's family | 31 (30.4) | 34 (33.3) | 31 (30.4) |
| 3 Surgical colleagues | 5 (4.9) | 9 (8.8) | 84 (82.4) |
| 4 Hospital ethics committee | 23 (22.5) | 16 (15.7) | 56 (54.9) |
| 5 Hospital management | 22 (21.6) | 26 (25.5) | 41 (40.2) |
| 6 At clinical meetings | 2 (2.0) | 5 (4.9) | 84 (82.4) |
Figures in parentheses are percentages.
