Medication Error In Oman
Health Search databasePMCAll DatabasesAssemblyBioProjectBioSampleBioSystemsBooksClinVarCloneConserved DomainsdbGaPdbVarESTGeneGenomeGEO DataSetsGEO ProfilesGSSGTRHomoloGeneMedGenMeSHNCBI Web SiteNLM CatalogNucleotideOMIMPMCPopSetProbeProteinProtein ClustersPubChem BioAssayPubChem CompoundPubChem SubstancePubMedPubMed HealthSNPSparcleSRAStructureTaxonomyToolKitToolKitAllToolKitBookToolKitBookghUniGeneSearch termSearch Advanced Journal list Help Journal ListBMC Med Ethicsv.9; 2008PMC2531120 BMC Med Ethics. 2008; 9: 13. Published online 2008 Jul 29. doi: 10.1186/1472-6939-9-13PMCID: PMC2531120A survey of community members' perceptions of medical errors in OmanAhmed S Al-Mandhari,1 Mohammed A Al-Shafaee,1 Mohammed H Al-Azri,1 Ibrahim S Al-Zakwani,2 Mushtaq Khan,1 Ahmed M Al-Waily,1 and Syed Rizvi11Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, P. O. Box 35, PC 123, Oman2Department of Pharmacy, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, P.O. Box 38, PC 123, OmanCorresponding author.Ahmed S Al-Mandhari: moc.oohay@69ranam; Mohammed A Al-Shafaee: mo.ten.letnamo@4eeafahs; Mohammed H Al-Azri: mo.ude.uqs@irzalahm; Ibrahim S Al-Zakwani: moc.oohay@inawkaz_lai; Mushtaq Khan: mo.ude.uqs@nahkm; Ahmed M Al-Waily: moc.liamtoh@yliawlademha; Syed Rizvi: mo.ude.uqs@ivzir Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ►Received 2008 Jan 25; Accepted 2008 Jul 29.Copyright © 2008 Al-Mandhari et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.AbstractBackgroundErrors have been the concern of providers and consumers of health care services. However, consumers' perception of medical errors in developing countries is rarely explored. The aim of this study is to assess community members' perceptions about medical errors and to analyse the factors affecting this perception in one Middle East country, Oman.MethodsFace to face interviews were conducted with heads of 212 households in two villages in N
Download Full-text PDF A Survey of Community Members' Perceptions of Medical Errors in OmanArticle (PDF Available) in BMC Medical Ethics 9(1):13 · February 2008 with 84 ReadsDOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-9-13 · Source: PubMed1st Ahmed Al Mandhari8.44 · Sultan Qaboos University2nd Mohammed Ali Al Shafaee26.41 · Sultan Qaboos University+ 33rd Mohammed Hilal Al-Azri11.39 · Sultan Qaboos UniversityLast Syed Rizvi23.61 · Sultan Qaboos UniversityShow more authorsAbstractErrors have been the concern of providers and consumers of health care services. However, consumers' perception of medical errors in developing countries is rarely explored. The aim of this study is to assess community members' perceptions http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2531120/ about medical errors and to analyse the factors affecting this perception in one Middle East country, Oman. Face to face interviews were conducted with heads of 212 households in two villages in North Al-Batinah region of Oman selected because of close proximity to the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Muscat, Oman. Participants' perceived knowledge about medical errors was assessed. Responses were coded and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23134839_A_Survey_of_Community_Members'_Perceptions_of_Medical_Errors_in_Oman categorised. Analyses were performed using Pearson's chi2, Fisher's exact tests, and multivariate logistic regression model wherever appropriate. Seventy-eight percent (n = 165) of participants believed they knew what was meant by medical errors. Of these, 34% and 26.5% related medical errors to wrong medications or diagnoses, respectively. Understanding of medical errors was correlated inversely with age and positively with family income. Multivariate logistic regression revealed that a one-year increase in age was associated with a 4% reduction in perceived knowledge of medical errors (CI: 1% to 7%; p = 0.045). The study found that 49% of those who believed they knew the meaning of medical errors had experienced such errors. The most common consequence of the errors was severe pain (45%). Of the 165 informed participants, 49% felt that an uncaring health care professional was the main cause of medical errors. Younger participants were able to list more possible causes of medical errors than were older subjects (Incident Rate Ratio of 0.98; p < 0.001). The majority of participants believed they knew the meaning of medical errors. Younger participants were more likely to be aware o
International Issues 2 Comments Leave a comment Kelsey Sipe / Jul 13 2011 This article outlines the devastatingly high number of medical errors that have recently occurred in Oman. In http://sites.jmu.edu/hcheadlines/2011/07/13/times-of-oman/ the past decade, the instances of medical errors that have resulted in unexpected death have skyrocketed, with the number of cases increasing daily. Many citizens have lost family members during minor, or simple, routine surgeries. The article describes that it is not due to lack of education or funding, but rather the number of deaths directly correlates with the long working hours and less medication error than ideal working conditions of the Omani doctors. The health authorities of the Sultanate are actively working on new laws on medical errors and to provide supervision from medical and legal specialists. Their hope is to limit the number of “human errors” that result in preventable death, such as lack of concentration by the doctors, or less than thorough examinations and detailed histories prior to medication error in surgery. Log in to Reply Chase RisCassi / Jul 15 2011 This article by Fahad Al Mukrashi for the times of Oman, talks about the number of medical errors that have been happening there and around the contrary. This article is meant to be provocative and cause fear in the reader. Fahad points out that 71 cases of medical errors where reported from 2002 to 2008 this is a nationwide statistic. How many operations went on between 2002 to 2008, the number of medical errors per operation would be a small statistic. And only 42 percent of the cases reported where found to be medical errors. Maybe there is a slightly higher number of medical errors in Oman which Fahad implies, but we do not know to what extent because he does not give a statistic. Fahad is not reporting on this article objectively either, over half of the article is non information, but designed to gain the righter’s interest by saying things like “To think that these are the people who we bank on to protect our lives, and those of our near and dear ones, is quite scary.” And “Can