Medical errors in terms of cause, departments of occurring and solutions from the point of view of doctors in Benghazi Medical Center

• Lamya S. El Adouli

  Department of Health Ad-ministration, Faculty of Public health, University Benghazi, Libya

  Author

• Gehan F. Elboseifi

  Department of Occupational Health, Faculty of Public health, University Benghazi, Libya

  Author

Medical errors negatively affect patients in the first place, medical service providers as well as health organizations in terms of quality. The main purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of medical errors in terms of causes, departments with the highest incidence of them, the most blame for their occurring, and strategies to prevent medical errors from occurring from the perspective of doctors in Benghazi Medical Centre. A cross-sectional design was chosen to conduct this study, and data was collected from doctors working at Benghazi Medical Center. 281 sample random samples were selected at random. The Epi Info tool calculated the sample size with a 95% confidence interval, and the response rate was 100%. The instrument of data collection was a self-administration questionnaire. (SPSS version 22) was used to analyze the collected data. The results show that the most common errors occurred in the emergency room (66. 9%).In addition, it has been found that one of the most important factors that contribute to the occurrence of medical errors was the lack of necessary resources for some tasks (566%).45.6% of doctors blamed the administration and (57.7) seminars and workshops was the best solution to solve the medical errors issue. Results appears that a lack of required resources was generally the main reason for medical errors. Additionally, the emergency room is a typical location for medical errors to occur. Through workshops and seminars, doctors determined the best way to stop medical errors. Additionally, the study participants attributed the occurrence of medical errors to the administration in their respective departments.

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