Introduction: Nurses have an undeniable role in preventing nursing and medical errors, and evaluating their attitude towards error reporting, as a strategic indicator, can help nursing managers in preventing errors and improving patient safety and quality of nursing care. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the attitude of nurses towards the occurrence and reporti...

 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...

Abstract Background and Objectives Blood transfusion in critical  patients is a lifesaver and at the same time can be fatal due to possible complications. The purpose of this study was to investigate the barriers to reporting the complications of blood transfusion nad the awareness of these complications in nursing staff.   Materials and Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study was perfor...

Background and Objective: Learning from errors through error reporting leads to changes in hospital processes and improved health outcomes. Therefore, this study examines assessing barriers to medical errors reporting the view point of nurses in selected hospitals of Ahvaz. Materials and Methods: The current study is descriptive analysis research. The statistical population included all the nu...

Introduction: Reporting medication errors leads to saving patients' wellbeing and safety and also is counted as a valuable information source for preventing further mistakes in future. The aim of this study was to determine the causes for refusing to report medication errors from the viewpoints of nursing students. Methods: All nursing students of Arak University of Medical Sciences (n=76) wer...

Background: The occurrence of medical errors in therapeutic centers is important due to its critical nature in terms of health, patient safety, and notable clinical and economic outcomes. One of the solutions to manage this problem in the field of nursing is error reporting and recording. Error reporting, on one hand, improves patient care quality and safety and; on the other hand, provides val...

Background : Under-reporting of energy intake is a common problem among nutrition-related epidemiological studies. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of under-reporting of energy intake on the estimate of nutrient intake.  Materials and methods : 901 subjects aged >16 years were enrolled. Food intake was assessed using a 24-hour food recall questionnaire. Basal metabolic r...