Despite the efforts of health care practitioners, medical errors are inevitable. Disclosure of errors is patients’ demand and right. The aim of this study was to determine the nursing staff’s attitudes about disclosure of medical errors to patients and its relationship with disclosure of actual and hypothetical errors. In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 180 of the nursing staff employed...

 Background and Objective: Health care and treatment processes cause many dangers for patients, increasing medical errors as one of its most important consequences. The present research has been conducted to decrease medical errors by investigating the role of reporting of medical errors in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.   Materials and Methods: In this quantitativ...

Background: Medical errors and adverse events are the main reasons of many avoidable deaths and imposed expenditures in worldwide health systems. Hence, this study aimed to recognize some challenges, medical errors and adverse events, and to address the appropriate solutions in order to solve them in the Iranian health system. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study had three main data...

Errors in health care services may cause irreversible harm in some cases. Medical errors are a threat to the welfare and health of the patient and their family and should be prevented. The majority of medical errors have little impact on human health, but some of them cause huge losses. This report describes a case of laboratory error in amniocentesis during pregnancy in which uncertain test re...

Background: A structured error reporting system, has a warning and connecting role in practitioners in patient care. The aim of this study was to investigate the causes of medical errors in voluntary reporting system in hospitals of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in 2014. Methods: This study is a cross-sectional study conducted in 2014. The population consisted of all the medical ...

Background and purpose: Ône of the most important physician’s job difficulties is the patient’s dissatisfaction and malpractice lawsuit, and its effects on their personal and professional life. Ünfortunately despite of all progresses made, and new technologies in the field of disease diagnosis and management, the prevalence of medical lawsuits is increasing over the time. Medical errors can occ...