Proportion of medication error reporting and associated factors among nurses: a cross sectional study

Ferede, Abebaw; Gebrie, Mignote Hailu; Messele, Anteneh; Demeke, Tesfaye; Hassen, Mohammed

doi:10.1186/s12912-018-0280-4

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“…It is possible that reporting barriers weaken the nurses’ VIR. Nurses’ low willingness of reporting medication administration errors and incidents has been disclosed in other studies (Hong & Li, ; Jember, Hailu, Messele, Demeke, & Hassen, ; Lee, Yang, & Chen, ). Hong and Li () indicated that 58% of Chinese nurses failed to report adverse events and the low reporting voluntariness was a critical determinant to this reporting failure.…”

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“…Hong and Li () indicated that 58% of Chinese nurses failed to report adverse events and the low reporting voluntariness was a critical determinant to this reporting failure. Studies noticed that nurses’ unwillingness of reporting was affected by their negative perceptions of cost‐benefit evaluation with reporting systems and experiences of making errors (Jember et al, ; Lee et al, ). These perceptions and unwillingness were prevalent among nurses in Australia, Jordan and Taiwan.…”

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Factors contributing to voluntariness of incident reporting among hospital nurses

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Purpose This study aimed to (a) test the hypothesized model for hospital nurses’ voluntariness of incident reporting (VIR) and (b) determine the extent to which reporting culture factors, nursing safety practices and perceptions of work predict VIR. Design and Methods A cross‐sectional survey was applied to 1,380 frontline nurses recruited from six teaching hospitals in Taiwan. Data were collected using self‐administered questionnaires. Correlation analyses and path analyses using structured equation modelling were used. Findings More than half of the nurses did not display a voluntary attitude towards reporting. VIR was correlated with factors of reporting culture, nursing safety practices and perceptions of work. Through path analyses, the safety practices mediated on the relationship between the reporting culture and VIR. Conclusions Nurses still have modest willingness of reporting. The factors of reporting culture and nursing safety practices are critical determinants of VIR. Within more behavioural involvement in the safety practices, the reporting culture can support nurses to report voluntarily. Implications for Nursing Management Strengthening nurses’ engagement in safety practices can advance the reporting voluntariness and agreement with reporting culture concurrently. Nurse leaders should continue to optimize workload management and job satisfaction, which is advantageous to the safety practices enacted.

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“…Strengthening the error reporting system is important to encourages safe medication administration and prescription practices, and improve the quality of clinical care services [35]. In Ethiopia, however, error reporting trend needs improvement given that only 57.4% medication administration errors were reported [36].…”

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Medication Errors in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Endalamaw¹,

Dessie²,

Biresaw³

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Background: The caution of medication prescription and administration are the main physician and nursing services though there was no study to show medication error at the nation level in Ethiopia. Therefore, we estimated the national prevalence of medication errors. Methods: A systematic review of studies searched in PubMed, Scopus, African Journal of Online, and Google Scholar was done. Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scale was used to assess the quality status of the included studies. We employed Galbraith plot and Egger’s regression test to assess publication bias. The national prevalence of medication errors was estimated using a random-effects model meta-analysis. Moreover, subgroup analysis and meta-regression analyses were done to explore the reason of statistical heterogeneity.Results: A total of 14 studies with 5,552 administered medications and 5,661 prescription sheets were included. The overall prevalence of medication error in Ethiopia was 57.6% (95% CI: 46.2, 69.0). The pooled burden of medication administration and prescription error was 58.4% (95% CI: 51.4, 65.5) and 55.8% (95% CI: 27.0, 84.6), respectively. Omission error (38%), wrong dose (38.5%), and the wrong combination of drugs (28.7%) were highly reported types of prescription errors, whereas missed doses (57.0%), technical errors (47.0%), wrong time (35.0%), and wrong dose (30.0%) were frequently observed medication administration errors.Conclusions: Medication errors were very common in Ethiopian hospitals whereby at least one out of two medications were wrongly prescribed and administered. Our review provided a shred of up-to-date evidence for clinicians, regional, and national healthcare policymakers to appraise and improve the quality of hospitals’ inpatient care.Trail registration: The protocol is registered in the Prospero database with a registration number of CRD42019138125.

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“…Two studies used self-administered questionnaire 24,45 and other two studies used the combination of both methods (observational and self-administered questionnaire) (Table 1). 20,37 Type and magnitude of MAEs Regarding the types of MAEs, though the proportion of MAEs is varied for each type of error based on the number of rights used as a reference 26,27 definitions 46 and phases of medication administration process; [11][12][13] in this study, around thirteen different types of MAEs were identified such as: wrong route, wrong time, wrong patient, wrong dose, wrong drug, error of omission, wrong rate, documentation errors, duration error, technical error, unauthorized and without hand washing/change glove.…”

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“…[17][18][19][20]24,36,37 In each included study, five 18 up to eight 37 different types of MAEs were identified; though, one study reported only the overall result. 45 The most frequently reported type of MAEs were wrong time and wrong dose errors (n=6.7). [17][18][19][20]24,37 The next most common type of administration error was wrong route (n=5.7).…”

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The Magnitude of Medication Administration Errors among Nurses in Ethiopia: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Bifftu

Mekonnen

2020

J Caring Sci

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Introduction: Nurses are the final safety check in the process of medication administration process to prevent errors that adversely affect life; yet death of comprehensive evidences in Ethiopia. The present study aimed to assess the pooled magnitude of MAEs (Medication Administration Errors) in Ethiopia. Methods: Systematic literature search in the databases of Pub-Med, Cochrane, and Google Scholar for gray literature were performed until December 3, 2018. The quality of study was assessed using criteria adopted from similar studies. Heterogeneity test and evidence of publication bias were assessed. Moreover, sensitivity analysis was also performed. Pooled prevalence of MAE was calculated using the random effects model. Results: A total of 2142 medication administrations were from observational and 681from selfreported studies were included in this systematic review and meta-analysis. The most prevalent and frequently reported type of MAEs was documentation error (52% to 87.5%) and time error (25.5% to 58.5%) respectively. Overall, the pooled magnitude of MAE was found to be 39.3% (95% CI, 29.1%-49.5%).It has no evidence of significant heterogeneity (I2 = 0%, P = 0.57) and publication bias Egger’s test (P = 0.40). Conclusion: Overall, more than one in four observed/perceived medication administrations had errors. Documentation error is the most prevalent type of error. Nurses are suggested to strengthen their focus on the rights of medication administration guide particularly, documentation of their activities need special attention.

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Proportion of medication error reporting and associated factors among nurses: a cross sectional study

Cited by 71 publications

References 34 publications

Factors contributing to voluntariness of incident reporting among hospital nurses

Factors contributing to voluntariness of incident reporting among hospital nurses

Medication Errors in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

The Magnitude of Medication Administration Errors among Nurses in Ethiopia: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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