Background & Aim: Drug therapy is an important part of the patient's care process which its proper and safe observance is of standard emphasis and its neglecting may give rise to errors and unrecoverable complications for the patient. Evaluation of medication error is necessary for error management and providing safe care to patients. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of medicatio...

Causes of Medication Errors and Barriers of Error Reporting in point of views of Nurses: a case study   Mayelafshar Mahnaz1*, Memarpour Mehdi2   1. Ph.D. Student of Health Services Management, Department of Health Services Management, Islamic Azad University,Tehran Sciences and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran 2. Ph.D. Student of Industrial Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, I...

 Background: Error detecting is known as basis of patient safety improvement .With ethical and professional commitment providers for disclosing the error report, errors reporting among nurses is much less than the actual amount. The purpose of this study was to investigate nurse managers perspectives about reasons for not reporting medical errors in Firoozgar Hospital. Methods:This stu...

  Background & Aim: The most common types of medical errors are medication errors. Medication errors can cause serious health problems and should be considered a threat to patients' safety. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and types of medication errors and barriers to reporting errors by nurses in an educational hospital in Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences in 20...

Background and Objective: The risk of medication errors in internship nursing students is due to independence in practice that identification of medication errors is essential for protecting patient safety. The aim of this study was to investigate the types and causes of medication error and barriers in reporting it in internship nursing students. Materials and Methods: This Descriptive-analyt...

Introduction: Medication errors are considered as one of the most prevalent nursing errors the identification and disclosure of which are very important. The current study aimed to investigate the occurrence and reporting of medication errors in a teaching hospital in Isfahan. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, conducted in 2018, a questionnaire was used to collect the viewpoints o...

Background: Reporting of  medication errors  leads to saving Patients ;apossafety and also is counted as a valuable information source for further prevention of mistake in future.  The aim of this study was to determine the reasons for refusing to report medication errors from the viewpoints of nurses.Material and Methods:In this descriptive study, 140 of 200 nurses who were employees of Baharl...