Literature Review

Tittle: Factors effective on medication errors: A nursing view

Author: Shahrokhi, Ebrahimpour, & Ghodousi (2013)

Objectives Research Population Statistical Major Finding

Design/Setting sample Analysis
To Descriptive n=150 t-test, The nurse’s inadequate
investigate study in nurses correlation attention (98.7%), the errors
what Qazvin occurring in the transfer of
influence Medical medication orders from the
medication University patient’s file to kardex
errors by teaching (96.6%) and the ward’s heavy
nurses from hospitals workload (86.7%).
their
viewpoint.

Tittle: Factors Contributing to Medication Errors in a Tertiary Care Private Hospital,

Karachi.
Author: Sajjad, Gowani, Anyla, and Shireen (2017)

Objectives Research Population Statistical Major Finding

Design/Setti sample Analysis
ng

To determine Descriptive N = 119 Frequencies, The prevalence of medication

the prevalence cross- Nurses percentages, errors was found to be 21%.
of different sectional means and
The most prevalent type of
kinds of study design standard
error was administering
mediation in a private deviation
wrong dose to a patient
errors and tertiary care
(48%).
explore hospital in
perceived Karachi, Factors that were perceived to
factors Pakistan contribute to medication
contributing errors were: documentation
to medication by nurses prior to medication
errors. administration (54.6%),
shortage of nursing staff
(32.8%), and environmental
interruptions during
medication preparation
(26.3%).

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Tittle: Medication Management by Clinical Nurses at Tertiary Level Hospital in Bangladesh
Author: (Latif, Nesa, & Mallick, 2019)

Objectives Research Population Statistical Major Finding

Design/Setting sample Analysis

To assess Descriptive N = 80 t-test; The total rate of medication

how nurses exploratory nurses analysis of error was 76 percent.
practice study design at variance
There were six categories of
medication Mugda
(ANOVA) ME errors, with the most
management medical
and common being "providing
in college
correlation medicine after omission" (33
Bangladesh. hospital,
statistics percent), followed by "wrong
Dhaka,
timing" (29 percent).
Bangladesh.
Again, the IV route had the
largest percentage of errors in
ME routes (44 percent),
followed by oral (26 percent).
Nurses identified "unclear
prescription" (40 percent) and
"high workload" as the most
common causes of medication
errors (38 percent).

Tittle: Medication administration errors and contributing factors: A cross sectional study in
two public hospitals in Southern Ethiopia
Author: Alemu et al. (2017)

Objectives Research Population Statistical Major Finding

Design/Setting sample Analysis
To quantify Cross-sectional 130 nurses Bivariate A lack of sufficient training
the study design in and (68.5%), inadequate
prevalence of two public multivariate staffing (66.9%), and
MAEs, to hospitals in logistic distraction (50.8%) were
assess the southern regressions the three most commonly
degree of Ethiopia listed factors for the MAEs
reporting On the other hand, factors
MAEs, and to like looking-like drugs and
identify the distraction were
contributory significantly associated
factors to with the MAEs.
MAEs

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