Investigation of factors related to the behavior of reporting clinical errors in nurses working in educational and medical centers in Rasht city, Iran

Table 3 Advantages, disadvantages, facilitators of or barriers to medical errors reporting in the studied nurses

Question	Response	Frequency	Percent
What are the benefits of medical errors reporting?	Reducing the frequency of medical errors and increasing the quality of treatment	196	60.4
	Promoting patient safety and satisfaction	76	23.4
	Conscience, God	20	6.17
	Avoiding more serious mistakes	32	9.87
	Total	324	100
What are the disadvantages of medical errors reporting?	Fear of being mistreated, punished and pessimistic	136	42.6
	Not following up the report and providing feedback by the authorities	65	20.3
	Time-consuming medical errors recording	59	18.4
	Excessive magnification of minor medical errors	59	18.4
	Total	319	100
What factors or conditions facilitate medical errors reporting?	Encouraging and treating the person appropriately	90	28.2
	Increasing facilities	56	17.5
	See reports of error by others	22	6.8
	Low workload and sufficient time	39	12.2
	Not mentioning the name of the reporter and the department	30	9.4
	Timely and fast medical errors reporting	26	8.1
	Following up the medical errors report and removing its causes by the authorities	33	10.3
	Having a sense of empathy with the patient and his family	23	7.2
	Total	319	100
What factors and conditions make medical errors reporting difficult or impossible?	Fear of ill-treatment and legal punishment	97	30.7
	Group medical errors	31	9.8
	Systematization of reporting	33	10.4
	Lack of time to report	52	16.5
	Disclosure of an individual’s name	31	9.8
	Lack of support and follow-up of the report by the authorities	39	12.3
	Not accepting your mistake	32	10.1
	Total	315	100

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