Refusing to report the medication errors observed in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences during 2014–2015

Abstract Introduction One of the most important threated for patient health in medical centers is medication errors. Objective The purpose of this study was evaluation of effects of healthcare reform on refusing the medication errors report by nurses of educational hospital affiliated to Ahvaz Jundishapur University of medical sciences during 2014–2015. Materials and methods This cross-sectional study was conducted at Razi, Golestan and Emam teaching hospital of Ahvaz (a tertiary-care hospital) in the southwest of Iran. The present study was a cross-sectional study. Data about the demographic characteristics and reasons not reporting medication errors from three main educational hospital of Ahvaz were collected. Results After processing data, the results showed 61% of medication errors report by them. Based on our result, the highest reason for refusing the medication errors observed because of fear from reporting consequences. The results of the present study showed that the most important reasons for refusing the medication errors report by nurses were related to factors related to the fear of the consequences of reporting 3.72 ± 1.532, factors related to the process of reporting were 3.50 ± 0.753 and the managerial factors 3.12 ± 1.286, respectively. Conclusion Regarding the etiology of medication errors, Escherichia coli were the most frequent pathogen. The finding of this study showed that the encouraging hospital managers to give a positive response to them, encouraging nurses to reporting errors without any stress and paying attention to local standards can be reduce number of medication errors.