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Table 5 Hospital-wide key figures, July 2009-July 2012

From: The impact of a standardized incident reporting system in the perioperative setting: a single center experience on 2,563 ‘near-misses’ and adverse events

Total number of admissions

210,507

Total number of clinical operations

67,360

Total number of voluntarily reported incidents:

27,008

  by physicians

2,937

  by non-physicians

23,154

  by reporters that did not mention their position

917

Number of voluntarily reported incidents per type:

 

  medication & blood-related

6,932

  communication-related

6,053

  diagnostics-related

4,183

  treatment-related

3,751

  equipment-related

2,421

  other type-related

3,668

Total number of voluntarily reported causes (median 1; range 0–10 causes per incident)

48,055

Number of causes per category:

 

  mistake/forgotten

9,611

  SOP not followed

6,535

  other

31, 909

Total number of SOP-related causes:

10,543

  SOP not followed

6,535

  SOP not known

2,116

  SOP not available, incomplete or unclear

1,684

  SOP not accessible

208

Number of incidents with SOP cause

8,789