A field research for the determination the influence of physicians’ professionalism understanding on medical errors attitude

Abstract

To determine the influence of hospital-based physicians' attitudes toward medical errors on professionalism understanding Method: The research was carried out in a descriptive, cross-sectional, and interrogative design. The study was carried out at the Cumhuriyet University Hospital with 182 physicians. A survey form was used to collect data. The Cronbach alpha coefficient was calculated to be .809. Results: It was found that physicians' attitudes toward professionalism (x̄ = 3.72) and their attitudes towards medical errors (x̄ = 3.46) were positive. A positive correlation of 20.8% was found between the Professional Process sub-dimension and the Medical Error Perception subdimension. In the sub-dimension of professionalism, the score of the group of 41-50 age group was 21.52, while the score of the age group of 60 years and over was 25,40 (p <0,05). Conclusions: It has emerged that the physician's understanding of professionalism is not effective on attitudes in medical errors.

Errors in nursing practices: What are the attitudes of nurses toward medical errors?

“…In a study carried out in our country in which the same scale was used [18], it was indicated that physicians and nurses' mean medical error attitude averages were identical, and their awareness levels towards medical errors were positive. In the other two studies, physicians' total medical error attitude scores were interpreted as positive, with the mean of 3.69 [19] and 3.46 [20], similar to our study. In this study, only nurses' attitudes towards medical errors were investigated and it was found that nurses were quite aware of the importance of medical errors and error reporting.…”