This simple article is an addendum to our previous study to handle underreporting issues in medical error reporting systems. If you are interested in the qualitative aspect of the reported errors, you may want to refer to it. If your interest resides more in the comparing of the numbers of error reports for various situations, while controlling for the under-reporting problem, this article offe...

Background Improving the design of technology relies in part, on reporting performance failures existing devices. Healthcare has low levels formal and failure medical equipment. This paper examines methods car industry healthcare aims to understand differences identify opportunities for improvement within healthcare. Methods A literature search was carried out Pubmed, Medline, Embase, Engineeri...

INTRODUCTION Medication errors are among the most prevalent medical errors leading to morbidity and mortality. Effective prevention of this type of errors depends on the presence of a well-organized reporting system. The purpose of this study was to explore medication error reporting rate and its barriers and facilitators among nurses in teaching hospitals of Urmia University of Medical Science...