Assessment The Prevalence of Medical Errors and Their related factors in Governmental Hospitals in Benghazi-Libya

Abstract

Background: A ME is characterized by either employing incorrect plans to achieve an aim (errors that occur from planning) or failing to accomplish planned activities (errors of execution).or using wrong plans to attain an objective (errors that result due to planning). Aim: This study was aimed to identify, discover medical errors, cause and risk factors and methods of reduction in governmental hospitals in Benghazi, Libya. Methods: A cross-sectional study by using questionnaire combined of a total of n (100) participants, from both genders, and different specialties, random sampling technique were used in this study, data collection process was face to face interview with each staff member. The questionnaire contains a total of 31 question as the survey consist of three parts: The first part contains sociodemographic data, second part (dimension of medical errors and assessed the knowledge of the participants regarding medical errors), third section (Reasons behind the occurrence of medical errors), then statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS Soft-Ware package for windows version 28. Results: The frequency of medical errors according to stuff prospective was really high as major errors (46%), moderate errors (38%), minor errors (14%), the most common reasons for medical errors according to stuff prospective were lack of training and knowledge with average and nursing errors (4.10), high work load (3.98), non-significant relationship found between type of medical errors and (academic qualification and years of experience). Conclusion: In conclusion medical errors high frequency in governmental hospital. This study is useful to help hospitals improve their patient health plan system and reduce medical errors in Libya. Also, it is necessary to promote work environments that emphasize preventing errors, learning from errors, with evaluation system frequently about medical errors. Furthermore, study require due to some limitation first, shortage in sample size due to time constrains, second, this study focus only on opinion of health care stuff, patients and family member also required