Table 3.
High risk of error estimated from medication knowledge and certainty evaluation - totally, for each discipline and topic
| Proportion of questions with high risk of error | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Students | Nurses | P-value | |
| (n = 243) | (n = 203) | ||
| Total (42) 2) | 15.6% | 14.9% | 0.46 |
| Pharmacology (14) | 11.2% | 11.1% | 0.98 |
| - General (3) | 5.9% | 5.4% | 0.68 |
| - Effect (3) | 3.7% | 2.8% | 0.38 |
| - Side effects/interactions (4) | 7.9% | 8.9% | 0.66 |
| - Administration form/generics (4) | 24.0% | 23.8% | 0.99 |
| Drug management | 26.6% | 26.4% | 0.87 |
| - Responsibility (2) | 36.4% | 24.9% | 0.001 |
| - Storage (4) | 29.8% | 27.3% | 0.39 |
| - Dispensing (4) | 15.0% | 24.3% | <0.001 |
| - Distribution (4) | 30.0% | 28.4% | 0.43 |
| Drug dose calculations (14) | 9.1% | 7.2% | 0.005 |
| - Units (7) | 10.8% | 10.2% | 0.30 |
| - Dose-amount-strength (4) | 8.4% | 3.4% | <0.001 |
| - Dilution/infusion (3) | 5.5% | 4.8% | 0.38 |
Mann–Whitney U-test.
The results are given as percent of the total number of answers where the participants were certain that an incorrect answer was correct.
2)( ) = number of questions.