Table 1.

Interventions to reduce medical error by medical error category.

Medical error category	Interventions groups	Number of interventions
Overall medical error (1–10)	Use of electronic systems Process interventions Patient-centered intervention Inter-professional education	7 4 1 1
Medication error (4, 5, 7, 11–57)	Use of electronic systems Pharmacists and clinical pharmacist role Process interventions Leadership or managerial manners and strategies Smart pumps impact	10 1 19 6 1
Patients' fall (5, 58–62)	Education and professional skills Methods/tools evaluating patients' fall risk Process and patient care programs Hourly rounding programs Organizational and workplace culture	3 3 3 1 1
Healthcare-associated infections (18, 21, 42, 58, 61, 63–69)	Caregivers' education and behavioral change interventions Process interventions Managerial and organizational interventions Use of medication interventions Environment/equipment cleaning	4 8 5 3 1
Diagnostic errors (5, 70, 71)	Digital and electronic interventions Patient identification and checking Quality improvement methodologies	3 2 2
Transfusion and testing errors (72, 73)	Identification of patients (labeling and barcoding)	8
Surgical errors (18, 42, 74, 75)	Use of checklists and counting materials Use of radio-frequency identification technology	2 1
Patients' suicide (76, 77)	Measures to reduce absconding and engagement with patient's family Contact interventions Process and patient care programs	2 3 8