Table 8. Level of victim disability represented in medical TV series.
Data is expressed as percentage of total errors and compared with statistics from the Harvard and Utah/Colorado studies. Rate per hour is also provided.
aPatient outcome after the error is not discussed.
*Denotes the most common level of disability for each series, as well as overall.
ᶲRepresents values that are significantly different from values reported in the Harvard and Utah studies.
| Series | Errors | Emotional trauma | Insignificant injury | Temporary Injury | Permanent minor | Permanent major | Death | Unknowna |
| The Resident | 41 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| (34.1%)* | (9.8%) | (17.1%) | (7.3%) | (4.9%) | (26.8%) | (0.0%) | ||
| The Good Doctor | 23 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| (43.5%)* | (8.7%) | (39.1%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (4.3%) | (4.3%) | ||
| Code Black | 50 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| (30.0%)* | (30.0%)* | (38.0%) | (2.0%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | ||
| Chicago Med | 31 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| (61.3%)* | (19.4%) | (12.9%) | (0.0%) | (3.2%) | (3.2%) | (0.0%) | ||
| Grey’s Anatomy | 30 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| (23.3%) | (30.0%)* | (13.3%) | (6.7%) | (3.3%) | (10.0%) | (13.3%) | ||
| House | 41 | 16 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| (39.0%)* | (9.8%) | (46.3%) | (0.0%) | (4.9%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | ||
| Scrubs | 15 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| (53.3%)* | (0.0%) | (40.0%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (6.7%) | (0.0%) | ||
| ER | 11 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| (18.2%) | (0.0%) | (45.4%)* | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | (0.0%) | ||
| Overall | 242 | 91 | 40 | 73 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 7 |
| (37.6%)*,ᶲ | (16.5%)ᶲ | (30.2%)ᶲ | (2.5%) | (2.5%) | (7.9%) | (2.9%) | ||
| US hospital data | N/A | 33.8% | 45.1% | 4.5% | 2.9% | 10.1% | 3.3% | |
| Rate per hour | 3.6 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 0.93 | 1.7 | 1.6 | ||