Table 5. Demographic Information for the victim of medical error including race, gender and age.
aPatient could not be seen enough to determine the race, gender or approximate age (e.g., covered by drapes and then not discussed outside of that event).
*Denotes the most common victim race, gender and age for each series, as well as overall.
Race | Gender | Age (Years) | Average Age | ||||||||||||
Series | Errors | White | Black | Asian | Hispanic | N/Aa | Male | Female | N/Aa | 0-15 | 16-44 | 45-64 | >65 | N/Aa | |
The Resident | 41 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 36.6 |
(75.6%)* | (4.9%) | (0.0%) | (7.3%) | (12.2%) | (58.5%)* | (31.7%) | (9.8%) | (2.4%) | (51.2%)* | (36.6%) | (0.0%) | (9.8%) | |||
The Good Doctor | 23 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 26.3 |
(95.7%)* | (4.3%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (60.9%)* | (39.1%) | (0.0%) | (30.4%) | (52.2%)* | (17.4%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | |||
Code Black | 50 | 24 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 29 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 38.4 |
(48.0%)* | (48.0%) | (0.0%) | (6.0%) | (0.0%) | (40.0%) | (58.0%)* | (2.0%) | (8.0%) | (54.0%)* | (34.0%) | (2.0%) | (2.0%) | |||
Chicago Med | 31 | 20 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 39.4 |
(64.5%)* | (35.5%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (41.9%) | (58.1%)* | (0.0%) | (9.7%) | (61.3%)* | (16.1%) | (12.9%) | (0.0%) | |||
Grey’s Anatomy | 30 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 30.3 |
(83.3%)* | (6.7%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (10.0%) | (50.0%)* | (43.3%) | (6.7%) | (33.3%)* | (23.3%) | (16.7%) | (13.3%) | (13.3%) | |||
House | 41 | 37 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 29.3 |
(90.2%)* | (0.0%) | (9.8%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (75.6%)* | (24.4%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (80.5%)* | (19.5%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | |||
Scrubs | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 46.7 |
(80.0%)* | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (20.0%) | (60.0%)* | (40.0%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (26.7%) | (53.3%)* | (0.0%) | (20.0%) | |||
ER | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 53.8 |
(63.6%)* | (18.2%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (18.2%) | (63.6%)* | (36.4%) | (0.0%) | (18.2%) | (0.0%) | (36.4%)* | (27.3%) | (18.2%) | |||
Overall | 242 | 178 | 41 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 133 | 102 | 7 | 27 | 123 | 66 | 12 | 14 | 37.6 |
(73.6%)* | (16.9%) | (1.7%) | (2.5%) | (5.4%) | (55.0%)* | (42.1%) | (2.9%) | (11.2%) | (50.8%)* | (27.3%) | (5.0%) | (5.8%) |