Table B-4. Average Percent Distribution of Event Reports in the Past 12 Months by Work Area/Unit

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2010 User Comparative Database

Number of Events Reported by Respondents	Work Area/Unit
	Anesthes- iology	Emer- gency	ICU (any type)	Lab	Medicine	Obstet- rics	Pedia- trics	Phar- macy	Psych/ Mental Hlth	Radiol- ogy	Rehabili- tation	Surgery
	91 Hospitals	613 Hospitals	529 Hospitals	616 Hospitals	648 Hospitals	428 Hospitals	241 Hospitals	474 Hospitals	255 Hospitals	641 Hospitals	537 Hospitals	653 Hospitals
	1,586 Respon- dents	16,680 Respon- dents	22,248 Respon- dents	15,567 Respon- dents	30,179 Respon- dents	12,944 Respon- dents	10,534 Respon- dents	8,708 Respon- dents	7,332 Respon- dents	18,132 Respon- dents	11,900 Respon- dents	28,117 Respon- dents
No events	60%	47%	36%	47%	39%	44%	42%	46%	46%	55%	57%	45%
1 to 2 events	26%	31%	38%	27%	32%	36%	35%	19%	28%	32%	32%	33%
3 to 5 events	10%	14%	18%	13%	19%	14%	16%	15%	16%	9%	8%	15%
6 to 10 events	2%	5%	6%	7%	7%	4%	5%	10%	7%	2%	2%	5%
11 to 20 events	1%	2%	2%	3%	2%	1%	1%	5%	2%	1%	1%	2%
21 event reports or more	1%	1%	1%	2%	1%	1%	1%	5%	1%	0%	0%	1%

Note: Average percent totals in the table may not sum to exactly 100% due to rounding of decimals.

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Internet Citation: Table B-4. Average Percent Distribution of Event Reports in the Past 12 Months by Work Area/Unit: Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2010 User Comparative Database. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://archive.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/2010/tabb4.html