Abstract
Silent sufferers: Health care practitioners as second victims of patient safety incidents
Highlights
Patient safety is defined as the avoidance, prevention and amelioration of adverse outcomes or injuries or harm to patients [1]
Second victims are defined as "health practitioners who are involved in an unanticipated adverse patient event, in a medical error and/or a patient related injury and become victimized in the sense that the provider is traumatized by the event
For the purpose of this paper, patient safety incident (PSI) will refer to all harm causing adverse events, which may lead to prolonged hospitalisation, temporal or permanent disability or death of the patient, fetus or baby
Summary
Patient safety is defined as the avoidance, prevention and amelioration of adverse outcomes or injuries or harm to patients [1]. Second victims are defined as "health practitioners who are involved in an unanticipated adverse patient event, in a medical error and/or a patient related injury and become victimized in the sense that the provider is traumatized by the event. These individuals feel personally responsible for the patient outcome. For the purpose of this paper, PSIs will refer to all harm causing adverse events, which may lead to prolonged hospitalisation, temporal or permanent disability or death of the patient, fetus or baby. This paper seeks to explore the interplay between the health system, patient safety culture, and second victimhood
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