Investigating physician's perspectives on disclosure of medical errors in The Bahamas

Background -A better understanding of physicians' perspectives on barriers to reporting medical errors is needed to increase error reporting.This finding is backed by numerous researchers within developed countries who demonstrate that physicians' voices are imperative to understanding medical errors.The subject of medical errors is receiving increasing research attention, but value also exists in understanding the cultural beliefs among doctors that underlie medical errors.Arguably, research on medical errors thrives chiefly in the 'global north' where there exists a strong culture and, therefore, expectation of patient safety and error reporting.This reporting is imperfectly done even in developed countries, and developing countries may lack this cultural focus on error reporting.Since physicians commonly encounter medical errors, there is a need to understand physicians' perspectives on errors in developing countries.The Nassau Institute, a research organization in the developing country of the Bahamas, affirms the need for public concern and inquiry about the culture of medical errors.Effectively addressing the issues of error disclosure and reporting requires preliminary knowledge from Bahamian health professionals closely involved with medical errors.Therefore, this research aims to investigate Caribbean-based physicians' perspectives on disclosure and reporting of medical errors through a case study of physicians in the Bahamas Objective -The objectives of this research were 1) to produce data that can inform the development of an error disclosure policy; 2) to identify reasons why physicians in developing countries like the Bahamas might fail to report or disclose medical errors; and 3) to obtain an understanding of the influence of culture on the error reporting and disclosure practices of physicians in the Bahamas.Methods -This study utilized a qualitative research approach.The research employed phenomenology, a theoretical perspective most often associated with interpretative traditions in qualitative research.The method used was semi-structured interviews .This research also used the qualitative approach of inductive thematic analysis to assess information gleaned from interviews, whereby interesting features or patterns in the interview data were highlighted.

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