فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

INTRODUCTION: Reporting medical errors is one of the common methods for identifying andpreventing mistakes in‑hospital care. This study was conducted to identify the status of reportingand related factors in two groups of midwives and midwifery students.METHODOLOGY: This research was analytic correlational; it was conducted among all the midwivesworking in the midwifery and labor departments and midwifery students in Isfahan University ofMedical Sciences. The data collection tool included a checklist of errors and the researcher‑construedquestionnaires of awareness and attitude toward reporting errors. The results were examined usingdescriptive and inferential statistics (ANOVA, Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficient, andindependent t‑test) by SPSS software version 20.RESULTS: In this research, the error reporting in midwifery staff was 79.1% and the most frequenterror was related to the patient’s process of testing; the error reporting among the students was90% and the most frequent error occurred in the labor processes. The present study also showedthat there was a direct relationship between awareness and attitude toward reporting medicalerrors (P < 0.001), while there was not a significant relationship between the midwifery students’awareness and attitude toward reporting the medical errors (P = 0.31).CONCLUSION: According to the study, hospital midwives reporting is less than midwifery students.Accordingly, it is recommended to focus on the error and risk management committee to strengthenthe reporting system.