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