From: A survey of community members' perceptions of medical errors in Oman
Serial No. | Definition categories | Definitions given by participants | Number (%) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Wrong prescription/dispensing of medication | Wrong medication | 93 (34) |
2 | Wrong diagnosis | Wrong diagnosis | 73 (26.5) |
3 | Doctors' technical in-competence | Wrong surgery | 36 (13) |
 |  | Technical incompetence* | 10 (3.6) |
 |  | Lack of doctor's experience* | 7 (3) |
4 | Other staff technical in-competence (nurses and pharmacist) | Giving wrong injection | 11 (4) |
 |  | Pharmacist incompetence* | 4 (1) |
5 | Others | Errors by doctors | 5 (2) |
 |  | Forgotten surgical items | 2 (0.7) |
 |  | Wrong vaccination | 2 (0.7) |
 |  | IV canula left in site for 25 days | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Error in first aid | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Wrong BP reading | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Wrong procedure | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Doctor ignorance* | 14 (5) |
 |  | Poor staff attitude* | 4 (1) |
 |  | Not updating patients* | 2 (0.7) |
 |  | Faulty equipment* | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Doctors overload* | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Slowness in giving care* | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Nurses ignorance* | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Wrong information by the patient+ | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Not following doctors advise+ | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Intake of un-prescribed medicine+ | 1 (0.4) |
 |  | Intake of herbal medicine+ | 1 (0.4) |
Total | Â | Â | 275 |