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Investigating Factors Associated With not Reporting Medical Errors From the Medical Team’S Point of View in Jahrom, Iran

BACKGROUND: medical errors as a problematic fact in healthcare systems can increase patient’s safety if reported. This article tried to determine several factors associated with not reporting medical errors from medical team’s points of view. METHODS: 300 staff working in different parts of educatio...

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Autores principales: Jahromi, Zohreh Badiyepeymaie, Parandavar, Nehleh, Rahmanian, Saeedeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25363120
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v6n6p96
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author Jahromi, Zohreh Badiyepeymaie
Parandavar, Nehleh
Rahmanian, Saeedeh
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Parandavar, Nehleh
Rahmanian, Saeedeh
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description BACKGROUND: medical errors as a problematic fact in healthcare systems can increase patient’s safety if reported. This article tried to determine several factors associated with not reporting medical errors from medical team’s points of view. METHODS: 300 staff working in different parts of educational hospitals affiliated to Jahrom University of Medical Sciences including nursing, midwifery, paramedical and medical groups participated in this descriptive study using census method (2013). Data collection was performed using a researcher-made questionnaire including 31 items regarding four areas: medical teams, managers, errors and patients. RESULTS: The mean score of factors related to errors, mangers, medical teams, and patients’ scope was 2.68 ± 0.79, 2.63 ± 0.72, 2.53 ± 0.66, 2.41 ± 0.87, respectively. In medical teams’ points of view, errors and managers were among the important factors for not reporting professional errors. The most important factors in professional errors were related to severity and emergency of errors (2.73 ± 0.97), and managers’ focus on wrongdoers instead of noticing systematic factors of errors (3.00 ± 1.01). In medical teams, fear of legal prosecution by patients or their relatives (2.87 ± .97), and in patients, unawareness of errors (2.67 ± 1.08) was reported as the most effective factors. CONCLUSION: Factors related to errors and managers were more important than other reasons. Therefore, educating medical teams on recognizing errors and managers’ proper reactions in case of occurring or reporting errors seem to be necessary.
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spelling pubmed-48255192016-04-21 Investigating Factors Associated With not Reporting Medical Errors From the Medical Team’S Point of View in Jahrom, Iran Jahromi, Zohreh Badiyepeymaie Parandavar, Nehleh Rahmanian, Saeedeh Glob J Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: medical errors as a problematic fact in healthcare systems can increase patient’s safety if reported. This article tried to determine several factors associated with not reporting medical errors from medical team’s points of view. METHODS: 300 staff working in different parts of educational hospitals affiliated to Jahrom University of Medical Sciences including nursing, midwifery, paramedical and medical groups participated in this descriptive study using census method (2013). Data collection was performed using a researcher-made questionnaire including 31 items regarding four areas: medical teams, managers, errors and patients. RESULTS: The mean score of factors related to errors, mangers, medical teams, and patients’ scope was 2.68 ± 0.79, 2.63 ± 0.72, 2.53 ± 0.66, 2.41 ± 0.87, respectively. In medical teams’ points of view, errors and managers were among the important factors for not reporting professional errors. The most important factors in professional errors were related to severity and emergency of errors (2.73 ± 0.97), and managers’ focus on wrongdoers instead of noticing systematic factors of errors (3.00 ± 1.01). In medical teams, fear of legal prosecution by patients or their relatives (2.87 ± .97), and in patients, unawareness of errors (2.67 ± 1.08) was reported as the most effective factors. CONCLUSION: Factors related to errors and managers were more important than other reasons. Therefore, educating medical teams on recognizing errors and managers’ proper reactions in case of occurring or reporting errors seem to be necessary. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014-11 2014-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4825519/ /pubmed/25363120 http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v6n6p96 Text en Copyright: © Canadian Center of Science and Education http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25363120
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v6n6p96
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