Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: A systematic review of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

Improving health care quality and ensuring patient safety is impossible without addressing medical errors that adversely affect patient outcomes. Therefore, it is essential to correctly estimate the incidence rates and implement the most appropriate solutions to control and reduce medical errors. We identified such interventions.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of systematic reviews by searching four databases (PubMed, Scopus, Ovid Medline, and Embase) until January 2021 to elicit interventions that have the potential to decrease medical errors. Two reviewers independently conducted data extraction and analyses.

Results

Seventysix systematic review papers were included in the study. We identified eight types of interventions based on medica

SUBMITTER: Ahsani-Estahbanati E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9363709 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature