FREQUENCY OF REPORTED MEDICAL ERRORS IN EDUCATIONAL CENTERS OF URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES IN 2014

Medical errors, in addition to loss of life and property and immoral effects, are the reasons of the many avoidable deaths. So these are the necessities of performing this study. The aim of this study was to determine plenty of medical errors, type and degree of injury in hospitals in 1393.

In this retrospective descriptive study, all reported medical errors by hospitals in 1393 were studied. Data collection tool was an Error Reporting form approved by the Medical University of Western Azerbaijan province, which was reported by staff and data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.

The total number of reported medical errors in that year was 84. One case (1.2%) resulted in death and 53 cases (63.1%) of the errors reported in the educational centers of the Urmia were damaged. Most of reported errors related to trauma center. The highest error reporting was reported with 45.2% of the trauma center. The highest reported errors were nurses with 46.4% and the most reported errors were 42.9%. Among the errors in the mistakes, the wrong drug was reported by 21.4% more than other errors.

The total number of reported errors from all centers was much less compared to developed countries. it seems to promoting patient safety culture and eliminate the fear of punishment in centers, got to higher number of error reporting and analysis on how the event error and learning from mistakes, errors can be prevented in the future happened.