The role of medical errors reporting in medical errors management in Tehran Medical Science University hospitals

 Background and Objective: Health care and treatment processes
cause many dangers for patients, increasing medical errors as one of its most important
consequences. The present research has been conducted to decrease medical
errors by investigating the role of reporting of medical errors in hospitals of
Tehran University of Medical Sciences.   Materials and Methods: In
this quantitative-qualitative research, statistical population includes those
related people and the practitioners engaged in
medical errors a 13-member team in hospitals of Tehran
University of Medical
Sciences. The sample consisted of 232 employees that were
non-randomly targeted and selected from these hospitals. An interview and a
research-made questionnaire were used to collect data. The data was analyzed through factor analysis technique, once
determining affecting factors their internal correlation was determined using regression correlation and path analysis (Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics).   Results: Selected individuals
have pointed that medical errors reporting in medical settings does not affect
error management (out 41.05% of total
variance of data). The most decisive power is related to reporting
individual factors%32.07 and the least decisive power %8/97, to the reporting organizational factors.   Conclusion: Hospital administrators need
to identify
the related factors in medical errors reporting and remove
obstacles in medical errors reporting as an effective step < /span> toward
reducing the incidence
of errors and remove them.