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Nurses' responses to medication errors: suggestions for the development of organizational strategies to improve reporting.
Covell CL, Ritchie JA. J Nurs Care Qual. 2009;24:287-297.

This article discusses factors that impact nurses' decisions to report medication errors. A case in which a nurse was discouraged from reporting an adverse drug event was discussed in an AHRQ WebM&M commentary.
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