. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 19.

Published in final edited form as: Drug Inf J. 2011 Jul;45(4):421–430. doi: 10.1177/009286151104500404

TABLE 8.

Details of Reasons for Changes for Medical History

	Total	Field Type	Additional Information (%)	Entry Error (%)	Other (%)
All	325		21.2	62.8	16.0
Date	79	Date	34.2	59.5	6.3
Ongoing	129	Choice	10.9	58.9	30.2
Medication	27	Choice	22.2	74.1	3.7
Diagnosis/symptoms	47	Text	27.7	72.3	0.0
Other^a	11		9.1	45.5	45.5
Multiple^b	32		25.0	68.8	6.3

For completeness, miscellaneous changes were combined into the “Other” category.

Changes to multiple fields.