Table 3.
Participant errors, by document and error category
| Coding category | Subcategories | CT errors (# part)* | VN errors (# part) | Total Errors (# part) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clin concepts | clinical concept, incorrectly explained (CC) | 35 (25) | 18 (15) | 53 (33) |
| Clin research | research purpose, inaccurate (RPI) | 42 (41) | 0 | 42 (41) |
| Medications | Medication nature, incorrect (MedNI) | 2 (2) | 1 (1) | 3 (3) |
| Medication, generic name misspelling | 19 (19) | 1 (1) | 20 (20) | |
| Medication, non-prescribed | 3 (3) | 14 (12) | 17 (13) | |
| Medication, brand name misspelling | 0 | 18 (17) | 18 (17) | |
| Medication, brand name confusion | 0 | 9 (8) | 9 (8) | |
| Medication, partial memory | 0 | 24 (16) | 24 (16) | |
| Medication units, incorrect | 0 | 1 (1) | 1(1) | |
| Medication regimen, incorrect | 0 | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | |
| Total for Medications | 24(24) | 69 (57) | 93 (79) | |
| Devices | Device, incorrect explanation | 1 (1) | 5 (5) | 6 (6) |
| Procedures | Procedure, incorrect explanation | 12 (12) | 0 | 12 (12) |
| Terminology | Terminology confusion | 33 (27) | 16 (15) | 49 (36) |
| Findings | Finding, inaccurately reported | 0 | 31 (25) | 31 (25) |
| Finding, non-existent | 0 | 9 (8) | 9 (8) | |
| Finding, non-sensical | 0 | 12 (12) | 12 (12) | |
| Total for Findings | 0 | 52 (45) | 52 (45) | |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: wrong | 0 | 4 (4) | 4 (4) |
| Diagnosis: inaccurately reported | 0 | 7 (7) | 7 (7) | |
| Diagnosis, non-sensical | 0 | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | |
| Total for Diagnosis | 0 | 12 (12) | 12 (12) | |
| Oher | Non-existent direction | 0 | 13 (13) | 13 (13) |
| Clinical term, misspelling | 13 (8) | 31 (20) | 44 (25) | |
| Demographics, inaccurately reported | 0 | 2 (2) | 2 (2) | |
| Patient’s circumstances, inaccurately reported | 0 | 9 (8) | 9 (8) |
*
The first number is the number of errors of a given type, the second number (in parentheses) indicates how many of the 80 participants made this type of error.