CONTEXT Medication errors are the most common types of medical errors in hospitals and leading cause of morbidity and mortality among patients. AIMS The aim of the present study was to assess the knowledge of healthcare professionals about medication errors in hospitals. SETTINGS AND DESIGN A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to randomly selected healthcare professionals in ei...

The present study aimed to assess nurses’ Perceptions of workplace culture for medication errors reporting in Taif-hospitals(KSA) and Assiut University Hospital(upper -Egypt), identify and compare barriers that prevent nurses from reporting medication errors and exploring the strategies which might encourage them to report errors in both hospitals. Methods :Analytic -comparative design was used...

Medication error and adverse drug reactions occur frequently, leading to a high burden of patient harm in the hospital setting. Many Irish hospitals have established medication safety initiatives, designed to encourage reporting and learning to improve medication use processes and therefore patient safety. Eight Irish hospitals or hospital networks provided data from voluntary medication safety...

medication errors have important effects on increased length of hospitalization, increased mortality and costs. we assessed the incidence of medication errors and characterize the error types in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in tehran. we also investigated the effect of emergency department pharmacists on patient safety with regard to recovery of potentially harmful medic...

BACKGROUND It is important for healthcare providers to report safety related events, but little attention has been paid to how the definition and classification of events affects a hospital's ability to learn from its experience. OBJECTIVES To examine how the definition and classification of safety related events influences key organizational routines for gathering information, allocating inc...

PURPOSE To explore the use of disproportionality analysis of medication error data as a novel method to identify relationships that might not be obvious through traditional analyses. This approach can supplement descriptive data and target quality improvement efforts. METHODS Data came from the Medication Error Quality Initiative (MEQI) individual event reporting system. Participants were Nor...

Background and Objectives: Medication error is the most important factor threatening patient safety. While the causes of medication error are extensively researched in the public hospitals, the corresponding data from the private heath settings is limited. To help fill this shortcoming, this paper presents and discusses the results of surveying the medication error factors as perceived by nurse...

Medical error reporting systems have been in place for decades, with the hope that the collected reports would help us understand the nature of errors and prevent similar errors from occurring in the future. Among the various types of reporting systems, a voluntary system leaves the decision about whether to report a detected error or not to healthcare providers. Naturally, not every detected e...