Table 3.

	N	As % of category	As % of all near misses
Patient Care
Delayed Treatment	1,002	89.1%	68.7%
Delayed Diagnosis	11	1.0%	0.8%
Other	90	8.0%	6.2%
Failure To Monitor	15	1.3%	1.0%
Hypotension	3	0.3%	0.2%
Transfusion Reaction	3	0.3%	0.2%
Fall	1	0.1%	0.1%
Medication
Other	150	60.5%	10.3%
Wrong Dose/ Medication/ Route/ Order/ Patient	80	32.3%	5.5%
Allergic Reaction	7	2.8%	0.5%
Hypoxia	4	1.6%	0.3%
Delirium, Confusion	2	0.8%	0.1%
Hypotension	2	0.8%	0.1%
Bleeding	1	0.4%	0.1%
Nausea And Vomiting	1	0.4%	0.1%
Over-anticoagulation	1	0.4%	0.1%
Ancillary Services
Delay	22	50.0%	1.5%
Wrong Exam/ Patient/ Result/ Test	12	27.3%	0.8%
Specimen-related issue	8	18.2%	0.5%
Other	2	4.5%	0.1%
Care Coordination
Inter-/ Intra-dept Communication Issue	11	61.1%	0.8%
Documentation Issue	3	16.7%	0.2%
Sending Institution Communication Failure	2	11.1%	0.1%
Other	1	5.6%	0.1%
Outpatient Coordination / Communication Issue	1	5.6%	0.1%
Surgery/ Procedural
Malposition	10	66.7%	0.7%
Bleeding	3	20.0%	0.2%
Other	2	13.3%	0.1%
Device			0.0%
Malfunction/ Migration/ Occlusion	4	50.0%	0.3%
Infiltration/Extravasation	2	25.0%	0.1%
Other	2	25.0%	0.1%