Barriers and facilities in reporting medical errors: A systematic review study

Asgarian, Azadeh; Mahjour, Pegah; Heidari, Hamidreza; Khademi, Nasim; Ghassami, Keivan; Mohammadbeigi, Abolfazl

doi:10.4103/aihb.aihb_80_20

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“…A similar result revealed in Gondar’s comprehensive specialized hospital [ 9 ]. Literature supported that fear of being punished was found as a major factor for clinical incident reporting behavior of the health workers [ 25 ] and it is also evident that health care personnel are afraid of being punished if they report medical errors [ 26 ]. According to the Ethiopian penal code, it is punishing to injure a patient as a result of negligence.…”

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Clinical incident reporting behaviors and associated factors among health professionals in Dessie comprehensive specialized hospital, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a mixed method study

Yalew

Yitayew

2021

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Understanding the type and causes of errors are necessary for the prevention of occurrence or reoccurrence. Therefore addressing the behavior of health professionals on reporting clinical incidents is crucial to create spontaneous knowledge from mistakes and enhance patient safety. Method A mixed type institution-based cross-sectional study design was conducted from March 1 - 30, 2020 in Dessie comprehensive specialized hospital among 319 and 18 participants for the quantitative and qualitative study, respectively. The professions and participants with their assigned proportions were selected using a simple random sampling technique. For quantitative and qualitative data, semi structured questionnaires and interviewer-guided questions were used to collect data, respectively. Finally, qualitative findings were used to supplement the quantitative result. Result The finding showed that the proportion of clinical incident reporting behavior among health professionals was 12.4%. Having training (AOR=3.6, 95% CI, 1.15-11.45), incident reporting help to minimize errors (AOR=2.8, 95% CI, 1.29-6.02), fear of legal penalty (AOR= 0.3, 95% CI, 0.13-0.82), and lack of feedback (AOR=0.3, 95% CI, 0.11-0.90) were identified as significant factors for clinical incident reporting behavior of the health professionals. Conclusions This study showed that the clinical incident reporting behavior of the health professionals was very low. Therefore health professionals should get training on clinical incident reporting and the hospital should have an incident reporting system and guideline.

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Clinical incident reporting behaviors and associated factors among health professionals in Dessie comprehensive specialized hospital, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a mixed method study

Yalew

Yitayew

2021

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…al., (2011) which observed that most managements instead of rewarding staff that reports error end up looking for culprits and blaming them for committing error as this makes staff withdrawn leading to underreporting of error. According to Asgarian et al (2021), they believe that the attitude of managers determines how possible employees will commit and report their errors. Also Mansouri et al (2019) and Samsiah et al (2020) are of the view that when barriers such as blaming the employee and instituting punishments are removed using effective feedbacks as well as good corrective measures, medication error will be minimized and error reporting improved.…”

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“…Medication errors can result from various factors such as inadequate communication, inaccurate documentation, illegible handwriting, spelling errors, inadequate nurse-to-patient ratios, and administering medications with similar names. Asgarian et al (2021) suggested that workers make mistakes and fail to disclose them due to their lack of attention to their tasks. In a research by Ghobadian et al (2019), it was shown that most professionals caring for patients do not realise when they have made errors.…”

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“…environment that can act as a distraction or interruption. In separate studies carried out byAsgarian et al (2021),Mansouri et al (2019) andRutledge et al (2018), it was observed that an environment which supports medical practitioners to express themselves was very essential for them to perform. Another study carried out by two separate teamsZarea et.al., (2018) and Farzi…”

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Factors Associated with Medication Error Underreporting Among Health Care Professionals in Nigerian Air Force Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

Ikonne,

Nwozichi

2024

IJPHPP

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Medication errors are the commonest form of medical error whereby medications are wrongfully prescribed or used by the patients while in the care of a health professional. Assessing the factors associated with medication error underreporting is a crucial step in identifying and proffering solutions in order to avoid re-occurrence and minimize the unpleasant effect it has on the patient, healthcare professional, facility or the general public. A descriptive cross-sectional survey design was used to study the factors associated with medication error underreporting. It was carried out among 520 health care professionals comprising of Medical doctors, Pharmacists and Nurses who work in Nigerian Air Force Hospital Ikeja. A semi structured, pre tested questionnaire was randomly distributed to 249 respondents which formed the sample size as calculated using the Slovin’s formular. Findings from this study shows 106 (51.4%) of the respondents which represents more than half strongly agreed that poor working condition was a major factor to under reporting of medication error from the managerial point. Also, 101(49%), 96(46.6%) and 94(45.6%) of the respondents strongly agreed that the other factors included; poor reward system to self-medication reporting, poor utilization of information system to detect and analyze error and unclear channel of communication respectively. Employee factors to medication underreporting recorded was fear of some variables including, litigation (61.2%), criticism (54.4%) and fear of being seen as incompetent (50.5%). It is therefore recommended that management should make it a point of duty to ensure a conducive working environment is created, that employees work under a stress-free environment and that their welfare carted for and importantly ensure that a clear reporting system is put in place which will aid voluntary error reporting.

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Barriers and facilitators to reporting medical device-related pressure ulcers: A qualitative exploration of international practice

Crunden¹,

Worsley²,

Coleman³

et al. 2022

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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Barriers and facilities in reporting medical errors: A systematic review study

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Clinical incident reporting behaviors and associated factors among health professionals in Dessie comprehensive specialized hospital, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a mixed method study

Clinical incident reporting behaviors and associated factors among health professionals in Dessie comprehensive specialized hospital, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a mixed method study

Factors Associated with Medication Error Underreporting Among Health Care Professionals in Nigerian Air Force Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

Barriers and facilitators to reporting medical device-related pressure ulcers: A qualitative exploration of international practice

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