Factors associated with vulnerability of patients to medical errors

Arif Raza

Article Details

Factors associated with vulnerability of patients to medical errors

Authors:

Arif Raza

Publisher:

Eldaghayes Publisher, Tripoli, Libya

Main Topics:

Vulnerable Patients | Patient Safety | Health-care Hazards | Medical Errors

Journal:

International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health Vol.8 Issue 8, pp.602-602

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

5/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001522897

pISSN:

2320-4664

Keywords:

Abstract:

 Background: Patient safety has been an important concern among quality conscious health-care providers. Patients undergoing hospitalization are vulnerable to harms from various errors during patient care process. The vulnerability may differ from patient to patient depending on certain patient-specific factors. 
 
 Objective: The objective of the study is to examine the association of certain patient-specific factors with occurrence of medical errors. 
 
 Materials and Methods: The study used a casecontrol study design under which patients who faced one or more medical error were taken as cases and those who did not faced any medical errors used as controls. The data constitute of 109 cases and 236 controls over the period of the past 1 year. Five different patients factors; age, gender, literacy, income, and language inability were analyzed for their association with the occurrence of medical error. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 16 was used to calculate odds ratio (OR) with confidence interval (C.I.) of 95% and P = 0.05. 
 
 Results: It was found that old age patients, illiterate patients, and patients with language inability had a significant higher odd of suffering a medical error. The OR of old age patient is 1.221.83 (95% C.I., P = 0.001) in comparison to patients who are.

Article Details

Factors associated with vulnerability of patients to medical errors

Authors: Arif Raza

Publisher: Eldaghayes Publisher, Tripoli, Libya

Main Topics: Vulnerable Patients | Patient Safety | Health-care Hazards | Medical Errors

Journal: International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health Vol.8 Issue 8, pp.602-602

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 5/2019

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001522897

pISSN: 2320-4664

Vulnerable Patients

Patient Safety

Health-care Hazards

Medical Errors

Issues

Authors:

Arif Raza

Publisher:

Eldaghayes Publisher, Tripoli, Libya

Main Topics:

Vulnerable Patients | Patient Safety | Health-care Hazards | Medical Errors

Journal:

International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health Vol.8 Issue 8, pp.602-602

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

5/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001522897

pISSN:

2320-4664