Special Eurobarometer 241: Medical errors

This in mind the Directorate-General of Health and Consumer Protection launched this Eurobarometer survey on medical errors in the 25 Member States and, in addition, in the acceding and candidate countries and the Turkish Cypriot Community. This survey deals with the following themes: • General perception of medical errors • Experiences of medical errors: familiarity with the topic and concreteµexperiences • Practical implications: trust in health care professionals and hospital treatment This report presents the principal results obtained. For each of these themes, the results are analysed in terms of the European average and then considered at the country by country level. Also, some brief comments are made on the sociodemographic variables of citizens of the European Union. Furthermore, the responses of three questions are systematically cross-tabulated with the results of each question. These questions are: • Q2: How important a problem do you think medical errors are in (OUR COUNTRY) today? • Q4: Have you or a family member suffered a) A serious medical error in a local hospital? b) A serious medical error from a medicine that was prescribed by a doctor? • Q7: All in all, how worried are you to suffer a serious medical error? #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: [https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)有鉴于此，欧盟卫生与消费者保护总司（Directorate-General of Health and Consumer Protection）发起了此项针对医疗差错问题的欧洲晴雨表（Eurobarometer）调查，覆盖25个欧盟成员国，同时纳入入盟候选国、申请国与土耳其塞浦路斯社群。 本次调查涵盖以下主题： • 医疗差错的普遍认知 • 医疗差错相关经历：对该议题的熟悉程度与具体遭遇 • 实际影响：对医疗保健从业者的信任度与住院诊疗体验 本报告呈现本次调查所得的主要调研结果。针对上述每项主题，研究人员将先以欧洲整体平均水平为基准展开分析，随后再分国别进行研判。此外，报告还将就欧盟公民的社会人口统计学特征变量作出简要评述。 此外，研究人员还将三个问题的回答与各问题的调研结果进行系统性交叉制表分析，这三个问题分别为： • 问题2：您认为当前在（本国），医疗差错是何种程度的严重问题？ • 问题4：您或您的家庭成员是否曾遭遇： a) 本地医院发生的严重医疗差错？ b) 医生开具处方药物引发的严重医疗差错？ • 问题7：总体而言，您对自身遭遇严重医疗差错的担忧程度如何？ #####按卷册划分的调研结果分布如下： * 卷A：各成员国数据 * 卷AA：国家分组数据 * 卷A'（AP）：趋势分析数据 * 卷AA'（AAP）：国家分组趋势分析数据 * 卷B：欧盟/社会人口统计学维度数据 * 卷B'（BP）：欧盟/社会人口统计学维度趋势分析数据 * 卷C：国别/社会人口统计学维度数据 研究人员亦可联系莱布尼茨社会科学研究所（GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences）：[https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)