Abstract
Background: Reporting errors in healthcare organizations is aimed to detect patient safety and quality of care issues. Reporting errors is frequently used as a general term for patient safety event reporting systems, which depend on those involved in events to provide detailed information. This study aimed to identify barriers of reporting errors at one tertiaryhospital in Saudi Arabia from the perspective of nurses themselves. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. The data were collected by a questionnaire that was distributed among 154 nurses varying between male and female staff nurses working at the tertiary hospital. A descriptive statistical analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: Nurses revealed that there are several barriers to report incidents; however, lack of time and complexity of works were the main barriers for nurses to report incidents within the hospital units particularly for nurses who have 11-20 years of experience. Conclusion: Conducting this study has several advantages. Firstly, to identify the common barriers of reporting errors in clinical practice among nurses. Secondly, identifying the barriers and strategies of reporting incidents will enhance the patient safety across the organization and encourage the staff to report the errors.
Highlights
Reporting errors in clinical practice is critical to enhance patient safety and improve the quality of care [1]
Identifying the barriers and strategies of reporting incidents will enhance the patient safety across the organization and encourage the staff to report the errors
The aim of reporting errorsis to gather allthe required information onpatient safety reported by healthcare professionals as well as to enable health care organizations to use this information to understand system errors and create changes to reduce the likelihood of the reoccurrence of the error[2].reporting all types of errors by healthcare professionals is crucial [3]
Summary
Reporting errors in clinical practice is critical to enhance patient safety and improve the quality of care [1]. Medical errors can be reported through mandatory or voluntary reporting systems. Voluntary reporting system is aimed to provide detailed information about the occurrence of errors and their causes. The voluntary reporting system is most commonly used in healthcare organizations than mandatory reporting system as practitioners must not be forced to report the occurrence of errors; practitioners need free blame culture and freedom from punishment, which is found with a voluntary reporting system [4]
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