Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria | |
 Topic | • The main focus is on barriers to reporting MAEs among nurses |
 Population | • Practicing nurses at the hospital setting |
 Types of study | • Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method studies |
 Language | • English |
 Times frame | • Studies published within January 2016 to December 2020 |
Exclusion | |
|  | • Studies focused on barriers to reporting MEs among other health professionals but not nurses. Studies focused on nursing errors, review articles, discussions, editorial, conference papers, notes, commentary pieces, books, abstracts, and duplicates. |