ABSTRACT<\/p>\n
Background:<\/strong> Errors in health care services constitute e an unpleasant reality for health care professionals,\u00a0health care systems and, ultimately, for citizens-users of health care services. However, the lack of\u00a0statistical data derived from the Greek health care system does not allow forming an objective view about\u00a0errors in Greek hospitals.\u03a4he aim of this study was the recording of possible errors committed by the\u00a0medical and nursing staff on the stage of introducing the patient into the operating room until the time\u00a0of intubation and the correlation of errors with causative factors.<\/p>\n Material and Methods:<\/strong> Data collection was realized in the Operating Rooms of two hospitals of Athens,\u00a0from April 2009 to February 2010 and there were observed 200 patients who underwent surgery. In order\u00a0to record data, an appropriate questionnaire was used, and its validity was checked by a team of experts\u00a0and a pilot study. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS 17.0<\/p>\n Results:<\/strong> The absolute number of errors committed in 200 patients who underwent surgery was 40, while\u00a0the number of errors per patient was 0.2. Furthermore, 62.5% of errors were of minor severity, 30% of\u00a0moderate severity and 7.5% life-threatening. Regarding the correlation of errors with the educational\u00a0level of nurses, it was observed that nurses with university or technological education were making more\u00a0comprehensive preoperative checking\u2019s compared with the two-year education assistant nurses (p =\u00a00,031).<\/p>\n Conclusions:<\/strong> The attempt to alter the attitudes and behaviours of health care professionals is imperative,\u00a0in order to realize that errors in clinical care are inevitable and they can be reduced only after intensive\u00a0research, early detection and implementation of evidence based practices.<\/p>\n Key-words:<\/strong> patient safety, medical error, nursing errors, causative factors of errors, surgical errors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ABSTRACT Background: Errors in health care services constitute e an unpleasant reality for health care professionals,\u00a0health care systems and, ultimately, for citizens-users of health care services. [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[475,476,477,478,321],"eidos-arthrou":[1807],"keyword":[2069,2067,2068,1960,2070],"language":[1842],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iss_2_5","tag-birbas-konstantinos","tag-deligiannidi-parasevi","tag-giannakopoulou-margarita","tag-liachopoulou-alexandra","tag-saridi-maria","eidos-arthrou-erevnitika-arthra","keyword-causative-factors-of-errors","keyword-medical-error","keyword-nursing-errors","keyword-patient-safety","keyword-surgical-errors","language-greek"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9463,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/9463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"eidos-arthrou","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eidos-arthrou?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}