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Table 4 Incident report types

From: Incident reports involving hospital administrative staff: analysis of data from the Japan Council for Quality Health care nationwide database

 

All

n = 85

Direct care

n = 39

Indirect care

n = 46

Patient misidentification

 Yes

14 (16.5)

2 (5.1)

12 (26.1)

 No

71 (83.5)

37 (94.9)

34 (73.9)

Error types

 Medication

37 (43.5)

26 (66.7)

11 (23.9)

 Surgery

1 (1.2)

0 (0.0)

1 (2.2)

 Exam/treatment

8 (9.4)

5 (12.8)

3 (6.5)

 Others

39 (45.9)

8 (20.5)

31 (67.4)

  1. Numbers are shown as mean n(%)
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