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Table 2 Error types found in the different stages of the medication process

From: Medication errors related to transdermal opioid patches: lessons from a regional incident reporting system

Error type

Prescribing

Dispensing

Administration

Unknown

Total (%)

Wrong time

0

1

66

 

67(44)

Wrong dose

4

4

25

1

34(23)

Omission of dose

0

2

18

 

20(13)

Wrong transcription

9

0

0

 

9(6)

Unclassifiable*

0

0

0

6

6(4)

Omission of a drug prescription

5

0

0

 

5(3)

Lack of documentation of the drug administration

0

0

2

 

2(1)

Wrong dosing interval

0

0

2

 

2(1)

Wrong technique

0

0

3

 

3(2)

Ambiguous drug prescription

1

0

0

 

1(1)

Lack of control of agreement between administered drug and prescribed drug

0

0

1

 

1(1)

Wrong route of administration

0

0

1

 

1(1)

SUM (%)

19(112)

7(5)

8(78)

7(5)

151 (100)

  1. *MEs with no suitable error type Data didn’t provide enough information to determine in what stage in the medication process the ME occurred.