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. 2020 Dec 9;12(12):e11994. doi: 10.7759/cureus.11994

Table 4. Demographic information for the healthcare provider responsible for the error including role, race and gender.

aIncludes physicians’ assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, aids and other hospital staff.

bHealthcare provider responsible for the error was not shown on screen; therefore, sex and race could not be identified.

cPercentages add up to >100% in a given category because some errors had more than one person responsible for the error.

*Denotes the most common healthcare provider responsible for the error, race and gender for each series, as well as overall.

    Role Race Gender
Series Errors Attending Fellow Resident Intern Othera White Black Asian Hispanic Otherb Male Female N/Ab
The Resident 41 29 0 8 4 4 33 8 4 0 0 28 17 0
(70.7%)* (0.0%) (19.5%) (9.8%) (9.8%) (80.5%)* (19.5%) (9.8%) (0.0%) (0.0%) (68.3%)* (41.5%) (0.0%)
The Good Doctor 23 10 0 7 7 2 15 6 1 4 0 20 6 0
(43.5%)* (0.0%) (30.4%) (30.4%) (8.7%) (65.2%)* (26.1%) (4.3%) (17.4%) (0.0%) (87.0%)* (26.1%) (0.0%)
Code Black 50 26 9 3 18 0 35 14 7 0 0 35 21 0
(52.0%)* (18.0%) (6.0%) (36.0%) (0.0%) (70.0%)* (28.0%) (14.0%) (0.0%) (0.0%) (70.0%)* (42.0%) (0.0%)
Chicago Med 31 17 8 5 1 0 25 2 4 0 0 15 16 0
(54.8%)* (25.8%) (16.1%) (3.2%) (0.0%) (80.6%)* (6.5%) (12.9%) (0.0%) (0.0%) (48.4%) (51.6%)* (0.0%)
Grey’s Anatomy 30 8 2 0 21 2 24 2 5 2 0 20 13 0
(26.7%) (6.7%) (0.0%) (70.0%)* (6.7%) (80.0%)* (6.7%) (16.7%) (6.7%) (0.0%) (66.7%)* (43.3%) (0.0%)
House 41 37 12 0 0 4 34 11 0 0 8 31 14 8
(90.2%)* (29.3%) (0.0%) (0.0%) (9.8%) (82.9%)* (26.8%) (0.0%) (0.0%) (19.5%) (75.6%)* (34.1%) (19.5%)
Scrubs 15 3 0 0 12 0 8 5 2 0 0 11 4 0
(20.0%) (0.0%) (0.0%) (80.0%)* (0.0%) (53.3%)* (33.3%) (13.3%) (0.0%) (0.0%) (73.3%)* (26.7%) (0.0%)
ER 11 5 0 4 0 2 9 0 0 0 2 7 2 2
(45.5%)* (0.0%) (36.4%) (0.0%) (18.2%) (81.8%)* (0.0%) (0.0%) (0.0%) (18.2%) (63.6%)* (18.2%) (18.2%)
Overallc 242 135 31 27 63 14 183 48 23 6 10 167 93 10
(55.8%)* (12.8%) (11.2%) (26.0%) (5.8%) (75.6%)* (19.8%) (9.5%) (2.5%) (4.1%) (69.0%)* (38.4%) (4.1%)