Objective: To characterize pediatricians' attitudes and experiences regarding communicating about errors with the hospital and patients' families. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting: St Louis, Mo, and Seattle, Wash. Participants: University-affiliated hospital and community pediatricians and pediatric residents. Main Outcome Measures: Physician attitudes and experiences about error communication. Results: Four hundred thirty-nine pediatric attending physicians and 118 residents

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... (62% response rate). Most respondents had been involved in an error (39%, serious; 72%, minor; 61%, near miss; 7%, none). Respondents endorsed reporting errors to the hos-