Abdulrahim Aljayar
Despite all the efforts made by healthcare systems worldwide to prevent medical errors, their incidences are increasing, prompting the World Health Organization to describe it as an epidemic problem.
Realize it is a thorny, sensitive topic, and hard to reach a consensus even among professional experts, however despite the scarcity of resources, especially concerning hand surgery in particular, and the reluctance of some individuals and official institutions to provide information about it, we decided to address the issue because of its importance, by analyzing 245 cases that were detected among patients referred to the hand surgery unit or who attended the outpatient hand clinics in Benghazi between January 2020 and December 2021, in a trial to estimate its size, identify the most prevalent, and trace their possible root causes.