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Table 1 Characteristics of medication administration incidents (n = 72,390)

From: Identifying risks areas related to medication administrations - text mining analysis using free-text descriptions of incident reports

Characteristics

No.

%

Severity

 No harm

62,461

86.3

 Low

9,147

12.6

 Moderate

708

1.0

 Death

46

0.1

Error type

 Omitted medicine / ingredient

19,815

27.4

 Other

12,528

17.3

 Wrong frequency

6,975

9.6

 Wrong drug

5,494

7.6

 Wrong /unclear dose or strength

5,187

7.2

 Wrong quantity

4,415

6.1

 Mismatching between patient and medicine

3,437

4.7

 Wrong storage

2,091

2.9

 Wrong method of preparation / supply

2,001

2.8

 Wrong route

1,715

2.4

 Adverse drug reaction (when used as intended)

1,584

2.2

 Wrong / omitted / passed expiry date

1,458

2.0

 Wrong formulation

1,256

1.7

 Patient allergic to treatment

1,248

1.7

 Unknown

1,131

1.6

 Contra-indication to the use of the medicine in relation to drugs or conditions

1,079

1.5

 Wrong / transposed / omitted medicine label

505

0.7

 Wrong /omitted verbal patient directions

406

0.6

 Wrong / omitted patient information leaflet

65

0.1

Location

 Ward

47,149

65.1

 Intensive care unit / high dependency unit

5,034

7.0

 Operating theatre

1,480

2.0

 Pharmacy

1,423

2.0

 Hospital buildings (inside)

1,299

1.8

 Other

944

1.4

 Radiology

449

0.6

 Recovery room

315

0.4

 Anaesthetic room

237

0.3

 Missing information

14,060

19.4

TOTAL

72,390

100