Medication Error Disclosure and Attitudes to Reporting by Healthcare Professionals in a Sub-Saharan African Setting: A Survey in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medication errors (MEs) are largely under-reported, which undermines quality improvement and medication risk management in healthcare.

Objectives

To assess attitudes of Ugandan healthcare professionals (HCPs) towards ME reporting, and identify characteristics of HCPs who endorsed integration of ME and adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting, valued patient involvement in ME reporting, disclosed having ever made potentially harmful MEs, or observed possibly harmful MEs committed by other HCPs.

Methods

Healthcare professionals self-completed a questionnaire on their attitudes towards the occurrence and reporting of MEs in purposively selected Ugandan health facilities (public/private) including the national referral and six regional referral hospitals represent

SUBMITTER: Kiguba R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4650198 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature