ArticlePharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2018
Exploration of Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Barriers towards Medication Error Reporting in a Tertiary Health Care Facility: A Qualitative Approach.
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- The Effect of Nursing Practice Environment, Individual and Occupational Characteristics on Nurses' Attitudes Towards Medical Error: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing open · 2026Article
- Changes in Medication Errors after Implementation of an Electronic Health Record System in a Canadian Community Hospital.The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy · 2026Article
- Causes of medication administration errors and barriers to reporting as perceived by nurses in Saudi Arabia: A qualitative study.Belitung nursing journal · 2024Article
- Estimating Proportion and Barriers of Medication Error Reporting Among Nurses in Hail City, Saudi Arabia: Implications for Improving Patient Safety.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Critical thinking abilities among newly graduated nurses: A cross-sectional survey study in China.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Knowledge and Attitude toward Medication Error among Pharmacists.Hospital pharmacy · 2021Article
- Improving patient safety through identifying barriers to reporting medication administration errors among nurses: an integrative review.BMC health services research · 2021Review
- Medication Administration Error Reporting and Associated Factors among Nurses Working in Public Hospitals, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing research and practice · 2021Article
- Knowledge, perceived barriers and facilitators of medication error reporting: a quantitative survey in Malaysian primary care clinics.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2020Article
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Abstract
Medication error reporting (MER) is an effective way used to identify the causes of Medication Errors (MEs) and to prevent repeating them in future. The underreporting of MEs is a challenge generally in all MER systems. The current research aimed to explore nurses' knowledge on MER by determining their attitudes towards reporting and studying the implicated barriers and facilitators. A total of 23 nurses were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. The saturation point was attained after 21 interviews. All the interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim, and analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Four major themes and 17 sub-themes were identified. Almost all the interviewees were aware about the existence of the MER system. They showed a positive attitude towards MER. The main barriers for MER were the impacts of time and workload, fear of investigation, impacts on the job, and negative reactions from the person in charge. The nurses were knowledgeable about MER but there was uncertainty towards reporting harmless MEs, thus indicating the need for an educational program to highlight the benefits of near-miss reporting. To improve participation strategies, a blameless reporting culture, reporting anonymously, and a simplified MER process should be considered.
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