Evaluation and improvement of drug management process is essential for patient safety. The present study was performed whit the aim of assessing risk of drug management process in Women Surgery Department of QEH using HFMEA method in 2013. A mixed method was used to analys failure modes and their effects with HFMEA. To classify failure modes; nursing errors in clinical management model, for cla...

introduction: medication errors are among the most serious health errors threatening patient safety in all countries, with major impacts on public health. midwives as members of healthcare systems are prone to such errors. therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine medication errors and the contributing factors among midwives working in maternity units of mashhad university of medical scie...

Background & Aims: Administration of medications is an important part of treatment. Reporting of medication errors by nurses maintains patient safety and the lack of appropriate reporting can cause serious problems in health systems. The aim of this study was to determine the causes of medication errors and the barriers of error reporting from the viewpoints of nurses. Methods: This cross-secti...

The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of self-reported errors in Canada compared with other countries, and to identify risk factors for medical error. In 2007, the Commonwealth Fund surveyed a sample of adults in seven industrialized nations, including Canada. Data from this source were used to perform a bivariate analysis comparing those individuals who reported having experience...

In nursing studies, linear statistical methods are commonly used to analyze data on subjective perceptions. Most of the collected data include participants’ subjective perceptions and are usually not collected in a controlled environment. For linear regression analyses, there is a common understanding that the distributions of some studied variables might not be close to linear in nature. Howev...