Descriptive overview of the categories in all the cases; percentage comparison refers to the proportion of participants who mentioned that category in reply to the characteristic of the case vignette scenarios
| Case vignette scenario | |||||||
| Overall | Outcome | Witness | Cause of error | ||||
| Not negative | Negative | No witness | Witness | Self causes error | Colleague causes error | ||
| Categories considering communication | |||||||
| Excuse to the patient | 32 (20%) | 9 (14%) | 23 (24%) | 11 (18%) | 16 (27%) | 27 (22%) | 5 (14%) |
| Disclosure of an error to the patient | 47 (30%) | 14 (22%) | 33 (35%) | 13 (21%) | 24 (40%) | 37 (30%) | 10 (27%) |
| Considering disclosure | 16 (10%) | 6 (9%) | 10 (11%) | 7 (11%) | 8 (13%) | 15 (12%) | 1 (3%) |
| Considering no disclosure | 16 (10%) | 10 (16%) | 6 (6%) | 5 (8%) | 8 (13%) | 13 (11%) | 3 (8%) |
| Concealment | 9 (6%) | 6 (9%) | 3 (3%) | 8 (13%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (7%) | 1 (3%) |
| Communication with colleagues | 45 (28%) | 18 (28%) | 27 (29%) | 2 (3%) | 14 (23%) | 16 (13%) | 29 (78%) |
| Communication with nursing staff | 1 (1%) | 1 (2%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (2%) | 1 (1%) | 0 (0%) |
| Communication with the superior/chief | 46 (29%) | 14 (22%) | 32 (34%) | 20 (32%) | 15 (25%) | 35 (29%) | 11 (30%) |
| Communication with others | 15 (9%) | 3 (5%) | 12 (13%) | 4 (6%) | 7 (12%) | 11 (9%) | 4 (11%) |
| Categories considering reporting | |||||||
| Reporting in general | 20 (13%) | 5 (8%) | 15 (16%) | 7 (11%) | 6 (10%) | 13 (11%) | 7 (19%) |
| Reporting to an incident reporting system | 5 (3%) | 2 (3%) | 3 (3%) | 2 (3%) | 3 (5%) | 5 (4%) | 0 (0%) |
| Categories considering consequences | |||||||
| Actions resulting from the error | 42 (27%) | 13 (20%) | 29 (31%) | 18 (29%) | 14 (23%) | 32 (26%) | 10 (27%) |
| Consequences in general/prevention | 17 (11%) | 12 (19%) | 5 (5%) | 7 (11%) | 4 (7%) | 11 (9%) | 6 (16%) |
| Personal learning | 5 (3%) | 5 (8%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (3%) | 2 (3%) | 4 (3%) | 1 (3%) |
| Cause analysis | 15 (9%) | 10 (16%) | 5 (5%) | 6 (10%) | 6 (10%) | 12 (10%) | 3 (8%) |
| Legal aspects/documentation | 9 (6%) | 3 (5%) | 6 (6%) | 3 (5%) | 4 (7%) | 7 (6%) | 2 (5%) |
| Categories considering emotional responsiveness | |||||||
| Meaning for the patient/patient’s perspective | 27 (17%) | 15 (23%) | 12 (13%) | 7 (11%) | 13 (22%) | 20 (16%) | 7 (19%) |
| Being emotionally touched | 8 (5%) | 4 (6%) | 4 (4%) | 3 (5%) | 4 (7%) | 7 (6%) | 1 (3%) |
| Guilt | 7 (4%) | 2 (3%) | 5 (5%) | 2 (3%) | 5 (8%) | 7 (6%) | 0 (0%) |
| Uncertainty/doubts | 24 (15%) | 9 (14%) | 15 (16%) | 15 (24%) | 6 (10%) | 21 (17%) | 3 (8%) |