Table 2.
Medication error outcomes and subcategories created in the inductive content analysis.
| Excess Medicine n = 239 |
Omitted Medicine n = 502 |
Wrong Dose | Wrong Medicine | Undefined Outcomes n = 286 |
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| Too High Dose n = 163 |
Too Low Dose n = 76 |
Active Substance n = 177 |
Formulation n = 47 |
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| Subcategories | Random error (26.0%) Transferring information in care interface (24.0%) Errors with printed lists (23.1%) Transcribing or interpreting prescription (15.3%) Prescribing errors (4.1%) Errors in documenting administration (3.7%) Technical errors in administration (1.2%) LASA errors (1.2%) Others (1.2%) |
Random error (35.3%) Transcribing or interpreting prescription (20.6%) Errors with printed lists (19.4%) Transferring information in care interface (11.1%) Others (5.2%) Prescribing errors (4.3%) Technical errors in administration (3.3%) Errors in documenting administration (0.8%) |
Random error (39.3%) Transcribing or interpreting prescription (22.1%) Others (14.7%) Transferring information in care interface (6.7%) Prescribing errors (5.5%) Errors with printed lists (5.5%) Calculating doses or concentrations (3.7%) LASA errors (2.5%) |
Transcribing or interpreting prescription (35.1%) Random error (24.7%) Technical errors in administration (11.6%) Transferring information in care interface (10.4%) Prescribing errors (5.2%) Errors with printed lists (5.2%) Calculating concentration (3.9%) Errors in generic substitution (2.6%) LASA errors (1.3%) |
Administering medicine to wrong patient (65.4%) LASA errors (15.6%) Transferring information in care interface (6.6%) Prescribing errors (4.4%) Transcribing or interpreting prescription (3.8%) Errors with printed lists (2.8%) Others (1.4%) |
Administration of wrong insulin (57.4%) LASA errors (19.1%) Transcribing or interpreting prescription (8.5%) Others (8.5%) Prescribing errors (4.3%) Errors with printed lists (2.1%) |
Transferring information in care interface (35.2%) Prescribing errors (13.7%) Errors in patient files (10.9%) Administration of unsuitable medicine (10.2%) Technical errors in administration (8.9%) Non-rational treatment (7.5%) Using expired medicine /mishandling medicine (6.5%) Not defined (4.2%) LASA errors (1.7%) ADR (1.3%) |