Citation

Ahsani-Estahbanati E, Sergeevich Gordeev V, Doshmangir L. Front. Med. (Lausanne) 2022; 9.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Frontiers Media)

DOI

10.3389/fmed.2022.875426

PMID

unavailable

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 medical error type classification: overall medical error, medication error, diagnostic error, patients fall, healthcare-associated infections, transfusion and testing errors, surgical error, and patient suicide. Most studies focused on medication error (66%) and were conducted in hospital settings (74%).

CONCLUSIONS: Despite a plethora of suggested interventions, patient safety has not significantly improved. Therefore, policymakers need to focus more on the implementation considerations of selected interventions. Copyright © 2022 Ahsani-Estahbanati, Sergeevich Gordeev and Doshmangir.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; suicide; systematic review; female; male; Review; incidence; public health; patient safety; hospital; medical error; diagnostic error; health care system; medication error; intervention; surgical error; disease burden; quality of care; financial burden; healthcare associated infection