2011 User Comparative Database Report

Table B-4. Average Percentage of Respondents Reporting Events in the Past 12 Months by Work Area/Unit

Number of Events Reported by Respondents	Work Area/Unit
	Anesthesi- ology	Emer- gency	ICU (any type)	Lab	Medicine	Obstet- rics	Pediat- rics	Phar- macy	Psych/ Mental Hlth	Radiol- ogy	Rehabili- tation	Sur- gery
	141 Hosp- itals	758 Hosp- itals	654 Hosp- itals	739 Hosp- itals	791 Hosp- itals	567 Hosp- itals	318 Hosp- itals	630 Hosp- itals	349 Hosp- itals	758 Hosp- itals	670 Hosp- itals	816 Hosp- itals
	2,592 Respon- dents	23,419 Respon- dents	30,407 Respon- dents	20,761 Respon- dents	48,835 Respon- dents	19,486 Respon- dents	14,862 Respon- dents	12,651 Respon- dents	12,097 Respon- dents	12,097 Respon- dents	16,044 Respon- dents	42,143 Respon- dents
No events	57%	48%	37%	46%	41%	44%	44%	45%	52%	55%	58%	46%
1 to 2 events	29%	31%	37%	28%	32%	37%	35%	20%	25%	32%	31%	32%
3 to 5 events	10%	14%	18%	13%	18%	14%	15%	16%	14%	9%	8%	15%
6 to 10 events	2%	5%	5%	6%	6%	4%	4%	9%	6%	3%	2%	5%
11 to 20 events	1%	2%	2%	4%	2%	1%	1%	6%	2%	1%	1%	2%
21 event reports or more	0%	1%	1%	3%	1%	0%	0%	5%	1%	0%	0%	1%

Note: Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.

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Page originally created April 2011

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