Table 1.
Number of patient safety incidents and medication incidents received by the NRLS, 2005−2010*
Year | Total number of incident reports | Number of medication incident reports† | Medication incident reports as a percentage of all incident reports received |
---|---|---|---|
2005 | 517 415 | 42 398 | 8.19 |
2006 | 742 418 | 64 484 | 8.69 |
2007 | 874 148 | 79 118 | 9.05 |
2008 | 986 981 | 94 280 | 9.55 |
2009 | 1 118 336 | 113 837 | 10.18 |
2010 | 1 198 701 | 132 069 | 11.02 |
Total | 5 437 999 | 526 186 | – |
Based on the June 2011 extraction.