ArticleNursing open2021
Nursing students' perception of medical errors: A cross-sectional study in a university.
Article in Nursing open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Medication errors and medication error reporting practices in Ghana: a systematic review.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2026Review
- Assessment of medical errors awareness among nursing students during their clinical internship: Palestinian perspectives.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Experience of Nurses with Educator Role in Selected Hospitals of Indonesia: Phenomenological Study.Advances in medical education and practice · 2025Article
- Moderating effect of social support in the relationship between perceived work overload and patient safety behaviours among nursing interns in Nigeria.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Strategies to prevent medical errors by nursing interns: a qualitative content analysis.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Article
- Medication dosage calculation among nursing students: does digital technology make a difference? A literature review.BMC nursing · 2022Article
- Nursing students' perception of medical errors: A cross-sectional study in a university.Nursing open · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
aimTo assess the perception of nursing students on medical errors.
designA descriptive cross-sectional survey.
methodData were collected from March-April 2019 in a university in Ghana from two hundred (200) students using simple random sampling and analysed with SPSS version 21.
resultsMean age of respondents was 22.64 years. Medication error was perceived as the most common medical errors (MEs; 76%). Negligence was perceived as the most common cause of MEs (80.5%); nurses and doctors (84.5%-89.5%) were considered as staff who make most MEs. Respondents perceived that students commit MEs due to less knowledge about procedures (79%) and inadequate supervision (77%) in the clinical setting.
conclusionMedication errors were observed as the most common of MEs that can affect patients' safety. Taking prudent measures in addressing this can reduce MEs in health facilities. Enhanced supervision and effective ways of teaching drug administration are recommended.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.