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Learning From Our Mistakes: A Multi-Institutional Survey of Attitudes and Practices Related to Voluntary Error and Near-Miss Reporting

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, in contrast to physicists, dosimetrists and radiation therapists who reported the most use of error and near-miss reporting systems. Nearly all respondents agreed that error reporting is their responsibility. Getting colleagues into trouble, liability and embarrassment in front of colleagues were reported most often by physicians and residents