Discordant public and professional perceptions on transparency in healthcare.
Sir,

Transparency is becoming a major issue in healthcare.1,,2 Recent work shows substantial differences between views of physicians and those of the public on medical errors:3 while the public views open reporting as a very effective way of reducing errors, physicians prefer confidentiality. We conducted a survey to evaluate the potential contribution of a disclosure policy to hospital image. Our findings shed additional light on the discordance of opinions between physicians and the public.

We conducted a phone survey (in Hebrew, Russian and Arabic) of a representative sample of the Israeli public …