Table 2.

Magnitude of error on paediatric and non-paediatric wards

Magnitude of error	All reports n=1568	Paediatric wards only n=491	Non-paediatric wards/clinical settings n=1077
Overdose errors
Greater than 1	926 (59%)	311 (63.3%)	615 (57.1%)
Greater than/equal to 10	209	100	109
Greater than/equal to 5	293	130	163
Greater than/equal to 2	706	250	456
Magnitude=10	127	59 (12%)	68 (6.3%)
Underdose errors
Less than 1	464 (29.6%)	128 (26.1%)	336 (31.2%)
Less than/equal to 0.5	363	92	271
Less than/equal to 0.2	127	55	72
Less than/equal to 0.1	95	40	55
Magnitude 0.1	46	16 (3.2%)	30 (2.8%)
Unknown	178 (11.4%)	52 (10.6%)	126 (11.7%)