Table 3

Prevalence of errors extracted from studies

Author	Setting	Denominator	N	Intravenous infusion errors	Adjusted to /1000 patient bed days
Ross	Tertiary children’s hospital	Patient bed days	335 835	109	0.32
Narula	Tertiary children’s hospital	Patient bed days	18 588	46	2.47
Thomas	Critical care units (n=12)	Patient bed days	246 552	699	2.84
Total			600 975	854	1.42