If it's in the paper, it must be true: newspaper reporting of pediatric medication errors.

摘要

The mass media have the power to shape the public's perceptions of health care issues, including medical errors, and influence public policy related to such issues. Social knowledge of medications and its influence by the media are well described.1 Since the release of the influential Institute of Medicine report,2 medical errors have had a high profile in the mass media, although media reporting of the report itself was criticized as being flawed.3 Millenson4 claims that the "public shaming" of the medical profession by media reports of medical errors promoted the patient safety movement.