Knowledge and Attitude toward Medication Error among Pharmacists.

This study aimed to evaluate knowledge and attitude toward medication error (ME) among pharmacists working in public health care institutions. A cross-sectional study was conducted among pharmacists working in public health care institutions. Respondents were randomly recruited from 5 hospitals and 25 primary healthcare clinics in the state of Pahang, Malaysia. A set of self-administered questionnaires was used to assess their knowledge and attitude, distributed as a web-based survey. Knowledge and attitude toward ME reporting were assessed using five-point Likert-scale. This study was conducted between May and July 2019. A total of 186 respondents participated in the study. A majority of respondents were female (n = 144). About 90% of the respondents had good score on knowledge on ME. Only 25.4% of the respondents had favorable attitude toward ME reporting. Female pharmacists (), more experienced pharmacists () and those working in primary health clinics () were associated with more favorable attitude. Knowledge did not correlate well with attitude toward ME reporting (r = 0.08,  = .29). Despite having good knowledge on ME, the attitude toward ME reporting was still very poor among the pharmacists.