ReviewBMC health services research2021
Improving patient safety through identifying barriers to reporting medication administration errors among nurses: an integrative review.
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- Causes of medication errors in community pharmacies: A meta-ethnography and systematic review.PloS one · 2026Pooled it
- Implementation of patient safety monitoring systems in hospitals: a systematic review.BMJ health & care informatics · 2025Pooled it
- Factors influencing patient safety incident reporting in African healthcare organisations: a systematic integrative review.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Strategies and tools to learn from work that goes well within healthcare patient safety practices: a mixed methods systematic review.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
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- Medication Safety in India and Southeast Asia: A SWOT Analysis of Policies and Practices.Pharmaceutical medicine · 2026Review
- Medication errors and medication error reporting practices in Ghana: a systematic review.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2026Review
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- Evaluation of Paediatric Nursing Students' Medication Calculation Competence: An Observational Study Using a Gamified Contest.Nursing open · 2025Observational
- Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of patient safety culture scale in medication administration.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Factors associated with not reporting medication administration errors among critical care nurses in Kelantan, Malaysia: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Medication Administration Error Reporting Among Nurses: A Descriptive Qualitative Study.Global journal on quality and safety in healthcare · 2025Article
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- Developing and evaluating a dental incident reporting system: a user-centered approach to risk management.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Patient safety attitude scale in dentistry: development and validation study in Türkiye.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- A retrospective study on prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes of transcribing error: analysis of data from the National Medication Error Reporting System in Malaysia.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2025Article
- Proportion of medication error reporting and its associated factors among healthcare workers in Indonesia: A mixed-methods study.Belitung nursing journal · 2025Article
- Barriers to medication administration error reporting in a tertiary hospital in Lebanon.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
- The effect of nurses' Machiavellian and deontic justice personality on the tendency to make medical errors and other factors: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe aim of the third WHO challenge released in 2017 was to attain a global commitment to lessen the severity and to prevent medication-related harm by 50% within the next five years. To achieve this goal, comprehensive identification of barriers to reporting medication errors is imperative.
objectiveThis review systematically identified and examined the barriers hindering nurses from reporting medication administration errors in the hospital setting.
designAn integrative review. REVIEW
methodsPubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) including Google scholar were searched to identify published studies on barriers to medication administration error reporting from January 2016 to December 2020. Two reviewers (AA, and KDK) independently assessed the quality of all the included studies using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) version 2018.
resultsOf the 10, 929 articles retrieved, 14 studies were included in this study. The main themes and subthemes identified as barriers to reporting medication administration errors after the integration of results from qualitative and quantitative studies were: organisational barriers (inadequate reporting systems, management behaviour, and unclear definition of medication error), and professional and individual barriers (fear of management/colleagues/lawsuit, individual reasons, and inadequate knowledge of errors).
conclusionProviding an enabling environment void of punitive measures and blame culture is imperious for nurses to report medication administration errors. Policymakers, managers, and nurses should agree on a uniform definition of what constitutes medication error to enhance nurses' ability to report medication administration errors.
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