Magnitude of error on paediatric and non-paediatric wards
| Magnitude of error | All reports n=1568 | Paediatric wards only n=491 | Non-paediatric wards/clinical settings n=1077 |
| Overdose errors | |||
| Greater than 1 | 926 (59%) | 311 (63.3%) | 615 (57.1%) |
| Greater than/equal to 10 | 209 | 100 | 109 |
| Greater than/equal to 5 | 293 | 130 | 163 |
| Greater than/equal to 2 | 706 | 250 | 456 |
| Magnitude=10 | 127 | 59 (12%) | 68 (6.3%) |
| Underdose errors | |||
| Less than 1 | 464 (29.6%) | 128 (26.1%) | 336 (31.2%) |
| Less than/equal to 0.5 | 363 | 92 | 271 |
| Less than/equal to 0.2 | 127 | 55 | 72 |
| Less than/equal to 0.1 | 95 | 40 | 55 |
| Magnitude 0.1 | 46 | 16 (3.2%) | 30 (2.8%) |
| Unknown | 178 (11.4%) | 52 (10.6%) | 126 (11.7%) |