Table 3.

Medication Administration Errors 2011 and 2012

Medication	MAEs			Administrations			MAE Rate			MAEs identified by Incident Reporting
	2011	2012	Overall Totals	2011	2012	Overall Totals	2011	2012	Overall Totals
Narcotic Medications
Fentanyl	2	2	4	593	412	1005	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	4
Morphine	5	6	11	1971	2038	4009	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	6
Vasoactive Medications
Dobutamine	0	0	0	8	2	10	0%	0%	0%	0
Dopamine	3	2	5	32	11	43	9.4%	18.2%	11.6%	0
Epinephrine	184	105	289	1647	1243	2890	11.2%	8.4%	10%	7
Milrinone	4	1	5	1216	709	1925	0.33%	0.14%	0.3%	2
Vasopressin	11	43	54	128	293	421	8.6%	14.7%	12.8%	1
Fluids
IVF	137	136	273	4270	4297	8567	3.2%	3.2%	3.2%	13
PN	302	347	649	8613	11601	20124	3.5%	3.0%	3.2%	13
Lipid	103	100	203	6319	8908	15227	1.6%	1.1%	1.3%	11
Insulin
Insulin	9	4	13	284	172	456	3.2%	2.3%	2.9%	3

IVF- intravenous fluids; PN – parenteral nutrition