Table 8.

Distribution by occupation of reporters submitting incident reports at each hospital (see Figure 1 for hospital abbreviations).

Occupation of reporters	SAU number of errors (%)	LAU number of errors (%)	SAP number of errors (%)	Total number of errors (%)
Doctor	67 (36.7)a, b	26 (53.1)a	102 (40.5)b	195 (35.3)
Technician	162 (64.5)c, d	13 (26.5)c	93 (36.9)d	268 (48.6)
Attendant/assistant/student	13 (5.2)	7 (14.3)e	8 (3.2)e	28 (5.1)
Non-technical staff	0 (0)	0 (0)	37 (14.7)	37 (6.7)
Pharmacist	9 (3.6)	3 (6.1)	5 (2)	17 (3.1)
Other	0 (0)	0 (0)	7 (2.8)	7 (1.3)

Other refers primarily to administration, management and client service staff.

Like superscripts indicate significant difference.

^{a, c, d}p ≤ 0.001.

^{b, e}p = 0.003.