2012 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
	Anesthes- iology	Emer- gency	ICU (any type)	Lab	Medicine	Obstet- rics	Pediat- rics	Phar- macy	Psych/ Mental Hlth	Radiol- ogy	Rehabili- tation	Surgery
	174 Hosp- itals	842 Hosp- itals	723 Hosp- itals	823 Hosp- itals	884 Hosp- itals	635 Hosp- itals	332 Hosp- itals	706 Hosp- itals	402 Hosp- itals	868 Hosp- itals	727 Hosp- itals	888 Hosp- itals
	3,086 Respon- dents	29,862 Respon- dents	36,120 Respon- dents	25,391 Respon- dents	62,449 Respon- dents	23,709 Respon- dents	16,602 Respon- dents	15,154 Respon- dents	15,393 Respon- dents	29,929 Respon- dents	17,863 Respon- dents	51,857 Respon- dents
No events	56%	48%	36%	46%	42%	46%	45%	46%	51%	56%	60%	47%
1 to 2 events	31%	31%	39%	26%	32%	35%	35%	20%	26%	32%	30%	32%
3 to 5 events	10%	13%	17%	14%	18%	13%	14%	15%	15%	9%	7%	14%
6 to 10 events	3%	5%	5%	7%	6%	4%	4%	9%	6%	3%	2%	5%
11 to 20 events	1%	2%	2%	4%	2%	1%	1%	6%	2%	1%	0%	2%
21 events 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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