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

ABSTRACT:

Background

A medication error (ME) is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm. Voluntary reporting has a principal role in appreciating the extent and impact of medication errors. Thus, exploration of the proportion of medication error reporting and associated factors among nurses is important to inform service providers and program implementers so as to improve the quality of the healthcare services.

Methods

Institution based quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted among 397 nurses from March 6 to May 10, 2015. Stratified sampling followed by simple random sampling technique was used to select the study participants. The data were collected using structured self-administered questionnaire which was adopted from s

SUBMITTER: Jember A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5848571 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature