http://sqhn.org/web en-us N/A dipo@zeroone.ws Sun, 20 May 2012 13:56:21 CDT 20 http://sqhn.org/web/articles/9327/1/Patient-Safety-in-Africa-A-Culture-Shift/Page1.html Ente and colleagues found that 75% of African healthcare professionals believed that adverse events were mistakes made by individual practitioners leading to personal guilt, depression, and remorse (Ente, Oyewumi, & Mpora, 2010). Fear of blame, prosecution, and even imprisonment for medical errors may impede the reporting of patient harm in African healthcare settings as in other countries (Barach & Small, 2002). This fear of reporting further complicates the ability to collect incident reports or obtain open and transparent information concerning suspected adverse events.]]> no@spam.com (Stephen Powell, Daniel Baily, Njide Ndili and Christopher Ente) http://sqhn.org/web/articles/9327/1/Patient-Safety-in-Africa-A-Culture-Shift/Page1.html