Common Barriers to Reporting Medical Errors

Aljabari, Salim; Kadhim, Zuhal R.

doi:10.1155/2021/6494889

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“…Of these, reporting culture had the greatest impact on nurses’ intention to report adverse events, consistent with the findings of Yang et al 56 and Toren et al 57 Previous studies have pointed out that fear of discrimination and punishment is the main reason why nurses do not volunteer to report adverse events. 58 , 59 Similar to Lee et al, 60 we also found that the perceptions of reporting benefits influences nurses’ reporting intentions. However, unlike the findings of Mansouri et al, 61 the reporting procedure in this study did not correlate significantly with reporting intention, which may be related to the simplified reporting process of adverse events and easier accessibility of reporting systems in recent years.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Nurses’ Intentions, Awareness and Barriers in Reporting Adverse Events: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Tertiary Hospitals in China

Zhao¹,

Shi²,

Zhao³

2022

RMHP

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Purpose This study explored nurses’ intentions, awareness and barriers in reporting adverse events in tertiary hospitals in China. We also analyzed its associated factors to increase the chance to evaluate preventable errors, enhance care delivery, and improve patient outcomes. Patients and Methods A cluster sampling method was used to recruit 1382 nurses from two tertiary hospitals in Chenzhou and Handan City. An online structured questionnaire was used to collect data, which included general information questionnaire (eight questions), reporting awareness questionnaire (eight items with scores ranging from 0 to 8), reporting intention questionnaire (15 items with scores ranging from 0 to 15), and reporting barriers questionnaire (22 items with scores ranging from 22 to 110). Results We received 1565 completed questionnaires from 1734 potential participants (a response rate of 90.25%), with 1382 valid questionnaires, yielding an effective rate of 88.31%. The scores of reporting awareness, reporting intention, and reporting barriers in adverse events for nurses in tertiary hospitals were 8 (1), 15 (0), and 83.04 (±12.21) out of 110, respectively. Reporting awareness and barriers to adverse events were positively correlated with nurses’ intention to report adverse events (r s = 0.237 and 0.361, respectively; P < 0.001). Regression analyses showed that reporting awareness and barriers in adverse events and professional title influenced nurses’ intention to report adverse events ( P < 0.05) in tertiary hospitals. Conclusion Nurses in tertiary hospitals have a strong intention to report adverse events. The higher the reporting awareness of adverse events or the fewer perceived reporting barriers, the stronger the nurses’ intention to report. Hospital managers should deliver patient safety education and training for nurses, to increase their reporting awareness and decrease their perceived reporting barriers, improve their intention to report adverse events.

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Nurses’ Intentions, Awareness and Barriers in Reporting Adverse Events: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Tertiary Hospitals in China

Zhao¹,

Shi²,

Zhao³

2022

RMHP

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“…Second, MEs, AEs, and all the factors analyzed in this study were collected by self-report, and some bias cannot be avoided. For example, some ORNs did not want to report their MEs and AEs ( 51 , 52 ), and the prevalence of MEs and AEs may be underestimated in this study. Third, the factors analyzed in this study included social-demographic characteristics, worked-related variables, physical disease, and mental health.…”

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confidence: 89%

Prevalence and associated factors of self-reported medical errors and adverse events among operating room nurses in China

Song

Tang

Wei

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundIn recent decades, the prominence of medical errors (MEs) and adverse events (AEs) is fueled by several studies performed across the world. Correspondingly, a high prevalence of medical errors and adverse events have been reported. Operating room nurses (ORNs) were indispensable members of the operating process, and any kind of MEs or AEs from ORNs may cause serious results and even death to the patients. However, to the best of our knowledge, the prevalence and associated factors of MEs and AEs were never reported among ORNs in China, which is the largest country in population and health services quantity in the world.MethodsThis is a cross-sectional study, which was conducted among ORNs in China, and 787 valid questionnaires were analyzed in this study. MEs, AEs, gender, age, married status, religious belief, academic degree, manager or not, working years, working hours/week, physical disease, and mental health were evaluated in this study. MEs were evaluated by eight questions about the occurrence of eight kinds of MEs for the ORNs. For ORNs with MEs, further questions about clinical harm to the patients were interviewed, which analyzed AEs. Kessler 10 was used to evaluate the ORNs' mental health. Logistic regression was conducted to examine the factors associated with MEs and AEs.ResultsThe prevalence of MEs and AEs was 27.7 and 13.9% among ORNs, respectively. The most frequent MEs that occurred among ORNs were from surgical instruments (9.1%), disinfection (9.0%), equipment and consumables (8.9%), and specimen management (7.8%). MEs were positively associated with lower working years, poor mental health, and physical disease. The physical disease was positively associated with AEs.ConclusionThe prevalence of perceived MEs and AEs was at a higher level than other kinds of nurses. Fresh ORNs with physical and mental health problems were the risk population for MEs, and ORNs with physical disease were at a higher risk for AEs. All the findings implied that MEs and AEs were an important issue for ORNs, and ORNs with physical and mental health problems should be paid attention to control MEs and AEs.

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“…33 In addition to negative consequences of lack of feedback, the same studies demonstrated positive impact for appropriate feedback. 33,34 Thus, providing feedback of the causative factors for the error with focusing on system factors rather than individual factors in error causation is expected to improve the reporting rates. The feedback should be in the form of individualized feedback as well as aggregate reports to allow for sharing and exchanging information about MEs across a single and multiple healthcare organizations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of clinical pharmacists to medication error reporting in ministry of health and population hospitals in Egypt

Elshoura

Mosallam

2022

Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management

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Objective This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices toward medication errors (MEs) reporting among pharmacists working in Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) hospitals in Alexandria. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among all pharmacists who are responsible for reporting medication errors in the Egyptian online reporting system (NO HARMe). Results The majority of pharmacists received training on MEs reporting using the Egyptian online reporting system. Around half of the pharmacists knew the correct definition for medication errors. All respondents were aware of the presence of a MEs reporting system in Egypt. Clinical pharmacists’ attitudes towards MEs reporting was favorable with an overall mean score of 4.20 ± 0.73 in a score ranging from 1 (most unfavorable attitudes score) to 5 (most favorable score). Only 60.7% of the surveyed pharmacists used the system to report MEs. Antibiotics were the most frequent drug category reported and the prescribing stage was the stage in which pharmacists perceived the greatest volume of reports were made (89.3% and 71.4%, respectively). Lack of time was the most frequently identified barrier to reporting, followed by lack of feedback to the report submitted (73.2%, 54.5%, respectively). Inconsistent with the results of other studies, fear from legal consequences and being recognized as an incompetent provider was reported by only 12.5% and 11.6% of pharmacists, respectively. Conclusion The majority of pharmacists have good knowledge and favorable attitudes towards medication error reporting, however around two fifths do not report medication errors.

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Common Barriers to Reporting Medical Errors

Cited by 41 publications

References 43 publications

Nurses’ Intentions, Awareness and Barriers in Reporting Adverse Events: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Tertiary Hospitals in China

Nurses’ Intentions, Awareness and Barriers in Reporting Adverse Events: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Tertiary Hospitals in China

Prevalence and associated factors of self-reported medical errors and adverse events among operating room nurses in China

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of clinical pharmacists to medication error reporting in ministry of health and population hospitals in Egypt

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