Table 1 Respondent characteristics
Japan | U.S. | Taiwan | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
Working hours per week in this hospital | <40 h | 930 | 23.0 | 61,904 | 58.0 | 936 | 16.4 |
40–60 | 2,352 | 58.1 | 35,488 | 33.3 | 4,226 | 74.0 | |
≥60 h | 217 | 5.4 | 5,656 | 5.3 | 466 | 8.2 | |
No answer | 548 | 13.5 | 3,662 | 3.4 | 86 | 1.5 | |
Years in current specialty | <1 | 335 | 8.3 | 6,033 | 5.7 | 491 | 8.6 |
1–5 | 1,329 | 32.8 | 25,339 | 23.7 | 2,355 | 41.2 | |
6–10 | 846 | 20.9 | 17,261 | 16.2 | 1,521 | 26.6 | |
11–15 | 541 | 13.4 | 13,889 | 13.0 | 740 | 13.0 | |
16–20 | 319 | 7.9 | 12,195 | 11.4 | 345 | 6.0 | |
≥21 | 535 | 13.2 | 27,704 | 26.0 | 236 | 4.1 | |
No answer | 142 | 3.5 | 4,289 | 4.0 | 26 | 0.5 | |
Patient Safety Grade | Excellent | 135 | 3.3 | 22,410 | 21.0 | 214 | 3.7 |
Very good | 1,662 | 41.1 | 48,325 | 45.3 | 1,791 | 31.3 | |
Acceptable | 1,740 | 43.0 | 25,948 | 24.3 | 2,807 | 49.1 | |
Poor | 282 | 7.0 | 6,147 | 5.8 | 223 | 3.9 | |
Failing | 36 | 0.9 | 990 | 0.9 | 22 | 0.4 | |
No answer | 192 | 4.7 | 2,890 | 2.7 | 657 | 11.5 | |
Number of Events Reported (during the past 1 year) | No event reports | 717 | 17.7 | 31,506 | 29.5 | 2,523 | 44.2 |
1–2 | 1,759 | 43.5 | 42,401 | 39.7 | 2,159 | 37.8 | |
3–5 | 1,145 | 28.3 | 21,555 | 20.2 | 649 | 11.4 | |
6–10 | 317 | 7.8 | 6,631 | 6.2 | 163 | 2.9 | |
11–20 | 58 | 1.4 | 2,044 | 1.9 | 45 | 0.8 | |
≥21 | 17 | 0.4 | 898 | 0.8 | 23 | 0.4 | |
No answer | 34 | 0.8 | 1,675 | 1.6 | 152 | 2.7 | |
Total | 4,047 | 100.0 | 106,710 | 100.0 | 5,714 | 100.0 |