Table 4.

Discrete demographic information of the patients (n=202) and the nurses in the study of medication errors occurred at tertiary care emergency department of the study hospital

Numeric variable	Standard deviation	Mean	Max	Min
Age of the patients (years)	18.17	53	97	5
Age of the nurses (years)	5.1	26.7	45	21
Experience of nurses	2.3	5*	21	0.5
Patient to nurse ratio	3.1	11	18	4

Note:

^*Since the standard deviation is larger than the mean, the median is reported instead of the standard deviation (median =5.00).