Table 4.

The percentage of perceived medication administration errors reported for each type by the critical care nurses in tertiary hospitals, Kelantan (n = 424).

Type of medication errors	Percentage of each type of medication error reported (%)∗
	IV-related MAEs	Non-IV-related MAEs
(1) Wrong route of administration	16.1	18.6
(2) Wrong time of administration	16.5	18.9
(3) Wrong patient	15.4	16.5
(4) Wrong dose	16.3	18.2
(5) Wrong drug	15.6	16.7
(6) Medication is omitted	24.2	26.5
(7) Medication is given but has not been ordered by the physician	15.0	14.7
(8) Medication is administered after the order to discontinue has been written	15.6	15.2
(9) Given to patients with a known allergy	15.3	15.1
(10) Wrong fluid	14.9
(11) Wrong rate of administration	15.5

^∗ Min (0); max (100).