Table 3.

Medication Error Comparison

	PREDEMONSTRATION	POSTDEMONSTRATION
Total number of patients	70	302
Total number of medications ordered	500	2,378
Average number of medications ordered per patient	7.14	7.87
Total number of errors	38	97
Total number of orders with errors	36	82
% medication orders with an error	7.2%	3.5%
Total number of patients with errors	21	58
% patients with medication errors	30%	19.2%