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%) | ||